Twelve Body Doubles
Language: English
Published by Mousse Publishing, IT, 2025
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"There's something deeply unsettling about the fact that Brice Dellsperger has spirited Laura Palmer away and replaced her with a doppelganger."-Evan MoffittSince 1995, the French artist Brice Dellsperger (born in 1972 in Cannes) has been working on remakes of cult film sequences, which he has collected under the generic title "Body Double." The doubling of the actor or actress playing all the characters, both female and male, involves cross-dressing and raises questions about gender, originality and artifice. This book covers a decade and brings together video stills from his twelve most recent films, Body Double 29 (2013) to Body Double 40 (2024), with texts by Evan Moffitt and Rebekka Seubert and views of his latest exhibitions. The publication has been supported by agnès b., Air de Paris, CAC - la synagogue de Delme, CAC - Passages, Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, and Mrac Occitanie.
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- Title
- Twelve Body Doubles
- Author
- Brice Dellsperger
- Publisher
- Mousse Publishing, IT
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8867497073
- ISBN 13
- 9788867497072
- Item weight
- 350 grams
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About the Author
Les œuvres de Dellsperger sont présentées dans de nombreux festivals de cinéma internationaux et acquises par de nombreuses collections privées et publiques, comme son long métrage Body Double X, présent dans la collection du MoMA.
Brice Dellsperger (né en 1972 à Cannes, vit et travaille à Paris où il enseigne à l'ENSAD depuis 2004) travaille depuis 1995 sur des remakes de séquences de films cultes (Dressed to kill, Return of the Jedi, Saturday Night Fever, L'important c'est d'aimer, My Own Private Idaho, Twin Peaks...) qu'il rassemble sous le titre générique de Body Double. Les Body Double sont une série de vidéos numérotées dans lesquelles le cinéaste et plasticien rejoue des scènes célèbres de films en doublant plan à plan ce qui se présente alors comme un original, mais aussi mot à mot puisqu'il ré-emploie la bande sonore du film premier, sur laquelle des corps, en remplacement des acteurs, se calent. Le dédoublement de l'acteur incarnant tous les personnages, aussi bien féminins que masculin, implique un travestissement et une interrogation à la fois sur le genre, la facticité et l'artifice, que le cadre du cinéma permet de développer de manière spécifique : « Les travestis qui peuplent mes films sont des créatures fantastiques, de celles que j'aimerais croiser plus souvent dans la vie de tous les jours. Le cinéma emploie le costume sous toutes ses formes, et il est lui même travestissement de la réalité dans son acte de reproduction, dans l'illusion qu'il génère. Le cinéma est un artifice, il est donc le parfait réceptacle de mes expérimentations en matière de travestissement et de jeu de genres. Je le vois comme une extension du domaine du film, un doublement de la fiction. »
Les œuvres de Dellsperger sont présentées dans de nombreux festivals de cinéma internationaux et acquises par de nombreuses collections privées et publiques, comme son long métrage Body Double X, présent dans la collection du MoMA.
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