Justin Clifford-Rhody

Two friends resolve to enjoy an old horror movie as a consequence of character similarities. As the film makes headway, art begins to imitate life.

During the pandemic lockdown, the director sent half-second long strips of Eisenstein’s film to various collaborators to alter their segments at will. Once returned, the strips were combined to make this “collaborative deconstruction/destruction” of the film’s trailer, whose images and soundtrack are intentionally jumbled.