Lodge Kerrigan began his succession of utterly unique, visually and aurally dazzling character studies with the raw, ravaging Clean, Shaven. A compelling headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic (played by the remarkable Peter Greene) as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution, Kerrigan’s film brilliantly uses sound and image to lead audiences into a terrifying subjectivity. No one is left unscathed. —The Criterion Collection
Lodge Kerrigan is an Independent Spirit Award winner whose features Clean, Shaven; Claire Dolan; and Keane have been theatrically distributed worldwide and have shown at numerous international festivals including the main competition at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, New York, Telluride and New Directors/New Films at MoMA, winning numerous prizes. Kerrigan’s work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association, and has been the subject of retrospectives in Torino, Buenos Aires, and Reykjavik. Kerrigan has served on the jury at numerous film festivals, including Rotterdam and Thessaloniki, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. All of Kerrigan’s films, including all future work, have been chosen for preservation by George Eastman House.
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"You don't have a very nice car." Like a coldly shot Aronofsky flick. Interesting story structure that doesn't quite jive with me. I feel hints of Nicholas Roeg influence. Superb use of audio and close ups to induce a claustrophobic panic. Great location selections. A bit too distant from the character until it's too late. Even the sane people pick, itch and scratch. The end makes this worth watching.
Buon thriller psicologico e grande studio sulle sonorità, perfette per il tema trattato. Good psychological thriller and a large study of sound, perfect for the theme.
This is a haunting little piece that does more with sound than most of it's bigger and longer competition. The ending is well done.
A visual wonder. Kerrigan succeeds in making us realize just how skewed our view of other’s can be, especially those with mental illness. This is a topic that films usually seem to exploit, making… read review