Reid Farrington 'GIN & IT'
Rope was the first film Hitchcock shot in luridly saturated color and was, technically, a tour-de-force as it attempted to transfer the compressed drama of a one-act, one-set play into a suspenseful film through the illusion of being shot in one uninterrupted film take. It’s story was loosely based on the sensational Leopold and Loeb murder case and dealt with a thrill killing by a pair of privileged young men. Hitchcock’s Rope skirted the issue of the protagonists’ homosexual relationship due to the prevailing standards imposed on Hollywood through the Legion of Decency code of that era; with Hitchcock, his collaborators and cast only referring to this fairly obvious subtext as “it”.
In Farrington’s Gin and “It” this aspect of the material will come out of the closet, questioning the role of their orientation in the screenplay which exudes with the urbane witty wordplay of the sophisticated through contrasting text drawn from the original play. At the same time Farrington’s video theater work will mirror the technical feats of Hitchcock’s daring film experiment in Rope with its own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.
about Reid Farrington:
Reid Farrington’s innovative approach to integrating sophisticated videoscapes into live theater will find instant favor among fans of ensembles like The Builders Association and Big Art Group. Farrington’s background as a video designer for The Wooster Group positions him well for taking the lead on his own projects as a director, writer and designer. His first effort The Passion Project was a hybrid film theater installation piece that was acclaimed for its inventive take on the archival silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc made by Carl Theodore Dreyer in 1928.
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3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street near Rector St., Lower Manhattan
