The Yellow Wallpaper (2008) dir. Katrin Pesch

Adaptation of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1891) by US-American author and women’s rights activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In The Yellow Wallpaper the subjective experience of social conventions is negotiated via the perception of space. I was interested in the description of space, which is at the same time analytic and transgressive. The narrator’s exact and analytic depictions of the social and architectural environment are juxtaposed with the imaginary world of the wallpaper and create a scenario that is both liberating and frightening. The film is entirely composed out of still images punctuated by intertitles. The images were shot in an untenanted house in Beverly Hills and digitally manipulated to evoke the impression of papered walls in the otherwise empty rooms. The estate, the house and the rooms set the stage for the film’s main character, the wallpaper that is constantly changing.