Vigoda and Rampling Revive Roles Cut By Tarantino and Coppolla
A video by Agnieska Kurant revives parts cut from famous movies.
Agnieszka Kurant, courtesy the artist and Galeria Fortes Vilaça and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
In her solo show at SculptureCenter in New York, Agnieszka Kurant, a Polish artist, is presenting a charming work of video art called “Cutaways”. It features Abe Vigoda, Charlotte Rampling and Dick Miller, playing characters whose parts were cut from the iconic movies “Pulp Fiction”, “Vanishing Point” and “The Conversation”. (Click here to watch a clip from Kurant’s piece.) Kurant has crafted a new, cryptic narrative in which the three redundant characters come together in a wrecking yard. What’s especially nice, and strange, is that all three fictional figures seem to have aged along with the actors who played them, as though they’ve been wandering in some kind of Hollywood limbo for the moment to come back on set. It turns out that, for them at least, the cutting-room floor is not the end of the road. Artists have often been said to take on godlike powers of life and death, but here it feels almost true.
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