les vampires #38

“Les Vampires” is a bw 1915–16 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. It is a magical masterpiece with impact on great directors like Luis Bunuel, Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock… In the film, a reporter and his friend battle a secret society of criminals; “The Vampires”…

The face used here, is an off-shoot of the vampire from the film; Irma Vep. Irma Vep is played by the French actress/director/writer Jeanne Roques aka Musidora. The caharacter inspired Vampyra, Cat Woman and many other contemporary “Goths” like Siouxsie Sioux and Courtney Love.

“Although vice is seldom punished, virtue is always rewarded.”

Elsewhere I do video/photo manipulations, illustrations and here, I do collages that are built on masks/faces from relevant masterpieces of cinema. Overall; I use masks, personas, glitch, reflections, shadows and I am intrigued by fauxtography and the doppelganger theory.

This is the third generative work from "Faceless", my ongoing multi-disciplinary project.