A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night USA 2014 Regi og manus Ana Lily Amirpour Foto Lyle Vincent Med Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh 1t 44m DCP Persisk tale, engelsk tekst Aldersgrense 15 år
Continuing further with teleporting/tunneling manifestations in the moving image, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) is an Iran-set film by Ana Lily Amirpour.
The movie, however, was filmed in Taft, Southern California, thus evading the Iranian regime’s heavy censorship.
“Why is it one encounters the ghost or the vampire alone? Why is it that when one is with others he or she does not appear? Is it necessarily because he or she is a subjective hallucination of the witness? Rather, it is because the ghost or the vampire belongs to the labyrinthine realm of undeath, a realm where people are lost, including to each other.”
“Now that he was lost to the others, the vampire appeared to him. He began running but failed to evade his undead pursuer although the latter was walking nonchalantly. This failure confirmed the space to be a labyrinth.” “Or else, [this space] is to be ascribed to the vampire’s ability to tunnel (“For the dead travel fast”), hence to her ability to be in different places during the chase without covering the trajectory between them.”
(from Jalal Toufic’s (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Films)
In this film, we witness a boy encountering the vampire in a very similar situation as the one described above.
3 other scenes in the film will be briefly analyzed by curator and artist Oscar Debs as well after the screening.
In one scene, standing on a parallel pavement, the vampire intimidates a mortal she encounters on the street by physically mirroring each of his movements.
The filmmaker also has her vampire dream about a mortal lover. Can a vampire really dream? The recurring dream takes place in a tunnel-like structure, with the mortal entering the tunnel from its lit end.
Suggested readings:
‘Labyrinth’ – pages 75-80
&
‘Fascinated Motionlessness & Quantum Tunneling’
pages 20-24 from (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Films
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