JB / Faces
Bei mubi erwähnte David Hudson neulich, James Benning habe zwischen RUHR und TWENTY CIGARETTES noch einen weiteren Film gemacht, ein „shot-for-shot remake“ von Cassavetes‘ FACES. Die Neuigkeit kam aus einem Interview am Rande des Toronto International Film Festival, das Blake Williams mit Benning geführt hat.
Klaus Volkmer hat Williams‘ Tweets, in denen er von dem Projekt berichtet und aus dem Gespräch zitiert, zusammengesetzt. Das liest sich dann so:
12. September
Ok, y’all, the revelation from my Benning interview: between RUHR
and 20 CIGS, he made a shot-for-shot remake of Cassavetes‘ FACES.
Each shot true to dialogue & length of orig., but cropped on actors‘
faces. Take a moment to process that, because I haven’t finished yet.
22. September
More of Benning on his Faces ‚reconstruction‘:
»I like it. I reconstructed the whole film using one face … well if in
the third shot people go home then there’ll be just three faces. I only
used the face close-ups, but then I extend them to the length of the
scene, so if the scene is a half hour you see – and I measured the
amount of screen time each person had, so one of those people was on
half the time of the half hour, so you see Gena Rowlands for 15 minutes
and then the other two characters, if they were evenly – they’d each get
1/4. So I remapped their faces time wise in every scene. Yeah [it’s the
same script], but it’s silent except for two places where there’s music
where there’s a night club scene. There first one has jazz music and the
other one has disco music because the first one was a jazz club and the
other one… It’s actually quite interesting; if you know the film well
you see the whole film as faces rather than dialogue. So finally the
film matches its title.«
Dank an Klaus Volkmer.