The Art of Falling in Hitchcock
We went to Finale Art File for the opening of Block by Paulo Vinluan. Block is Paulo’s hand-drawn animated black-and-white video. It’s on view at Finale until 2 January 2014.
After viewing Block several times, we went upstairs to check out the Vic Balanon exhibit and were delighted to find that it was an hommage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. On one wall, an animated version of Cary Grant in North by Northwest is perpetually running towards the viewer; on the next wall, Eva Marie Saint from the same movie is forever running away.
The Fall by Vic Balanon
In Hitchcock movies, people are frequently holding on for dear life. Balanon’s The Fall considers four of these characters:
The saboteur Frank Fry (Norman Lloyd) clinging to the hand of the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur. All these photos are from the 1,000 Frames of Hitchcock project.
Injured photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) hanging onto the window of his New York apartment in Rear Window.
Acrophobic detective Scottie Ferguson (Stewart again) clinging desperately to the edge of the roof in Vertigo.
The mysterious blonde Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) hanging over the side of Mount Rushmore in North by Northwest.
Two men getting intimately acquainted with American monuments:
The villain played by Martin Landau at Mount Rushmore.
Norman Lloyd again at the Statue of Liberty.
Yes, we love Hitchcock.
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