Peeping Tom + presentatie Derek Ogbourne

Michael Powell (GB 1960)

Language: Engels, subtitles: Dutch

129 min - Het Laatste Beeld



This will send shivers down your spine: to have to witness your own death being recorded on camera. In Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, camera assistant Mark literally kills women using his camera. The film was taken out of circulation almost immediately and the reputation of director Powell was only rehabilitated in the 1980s.

Peeping Tom is screened in a complementary programme developed for the exhibition series The Last Image in Museum Tot Zover.

Mark Lewis works as a camera assistant in a film studio. In his spare time he takes pornographic pictures. As a child, Mark was abused in scientific experiments by his father, a biologist investigating the causes of fear in people. In an attempt to overcome his past, Mark tries to surpass the violence he was exposed to in his youth; he takes home prostitutes and films them with a camera hidden in the weapon with which he stabs them to death.
Peeping Tom – Roman Polanski’s favourite film – was slashed on its release as a ‘sick’ product and almost immediately withdrawn. It is mainly thanks to Martin Scorsese that this classic film on voyeurism and the frisson of death was rediscovered in the 1980s.
Prior to the screening of
Peeping Tom, British artist Derek Ogbourne will give a presentation of 30 minutes on his ‘Museum of Optography’ project, a museum and a series of exhibitions dedicated to the idea of the last image to remain on the retina before dying. Ogbourne will be presenting fragments from a home movie found in the 1970s and The Purple Chamber installation (t.b.c.).

Collect your free entrance voucher from EYE’s box office for the exhibition in Museum Tot Zover.
 

Peeping Tom + presentatie Derek Ogbourne