Rent Illusive Crime (1976)
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2h 5min
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Illusive Crime (1976)
Probably the most controversial of Woolley's films, because of an audio rape sequence with flashes of nudity that split critics and viewers (especially feminists) right down the middle - some saying it was exploitative, others saying it was essential to get the formalist message (that we are all voyeurs in the cinema, often viewing at the expense of women) across. The film tells the tale of a housewife (who we never totally see, but can hear) trapped in her luxury house at the mercy of a husband and ruthless police team investigating an illusory political crime that she may or may not have committed.
Kniephofstrasse (1973)Kniephofstrasse is the most austerely structuralist and painterly of Woolley's films. Based around a fixed camera single wide shot of a West Berlin townscape filmed at different times of day and night, at different speeds and in different weathers. The core wide shot image is also - in a rigorously systematic manner, starting from top left and moving to bottom right - subdivided into twenty equal-sized segments, each of which informs the wide shot in a different way. This film won first prize at the 1975 Experimental Cinema (Exprmntl) Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium.
Inside And Outside (1974)
A film set in the front room of a Berlin commune with a large shop window leading to the street outside. The film uses an actor and an actress, a pianist (visible playing the film's incidental music in the room next door) and occasional people on the street. Scripted action is located inside the room, unscripted on the pavement outside where passers-by occasionally stop and watch the actors in the same way that the audience Is watching them on screen from a cinema or the comfort of home.- Actors:
- James Woolley, Ulrike Pohl, Wolfgang W. Muller, Theo Hardtman
- Directors:
- Richard Woolley
- Producers:
- Richard Woolley, Ulrike Hentrich-Wimmers
- Voiced By:
- Andrew McCulloch, Colin Proctor, Amanda Reiss
- Writers:
- Richard Woolley
- Aka:
- Illusive Crime / Drinnen und Draussen / Kniephofstrasse
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Drama
