WEAKEND (2003)

Directors

Daniel Cockburn

The story

Video and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Adam Gibson from The 6th Day is loosened up and reworked by a videomaker, subjecting him to "a cruel series of digital replications". It opens with "dreamed double encounters," followed by "the looped abyss of eyes within eyes, a mosaic of multiplying greetings" ("I'm Adam Gibson"), a looped descent, a montage of Schwarzenegger's reaction shots (slowed), and a pulsing screen atop a screen in which "even the frames are replicating". The manipulation stops with the arrival of the Sabbath, when "the videomaker rests," and the Schwarzenegger of his creation appears to be perimitted to speak angrily…

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