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Alone Life Wastes Andy Hardy

Martin Arnold, 1998

Published on by Philippe Langlois

The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, Les cloches d’Atlantis, Musique électroacoustique et cinéma, Archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore, éditions mf, Paris, 2012.

Image of the work Alone Life Wastes Andy Hardy, Martin Arnold, 1998.

By revisiting Hollywood classics through sampling in Alone Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998), the Viennese filmmaker Martin Arnold addresses the question of appropriation and re-reading. The procedure extends the technique of the two preceding films: Pièce touchée (1989) and Passage à l’acte (1993).