The Exhibited
De udstillede
Denmark
2000
81 Min
Color
Danish
A rare peek at Von Trier’s brilliant art installation “Psychomobile 1 – The World Clock.” Von Trier’s complicated “script” involved 54 actors improvising an ongoing story in a 19-room theatrical space, in which their characters’ moods and behaviors alter according to the changing colored lights in each room — determined at random halfway around the world by the movements of ants in New Mexico! Impossible as it is to capture the whole sprawling narrative, Jargil wisely chooses to tell the story of those actors most emotionally pummeled by their distant chaotic “god,” as he explores issues both theological and dramaturgical — making this a fascinating document of an even more fascinating theatrical experiment. –cinefamily.org