Hell Frozen Over (2000)

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Lets Entertain this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness emptiness and vacuity with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary masscultural entertainment Juxtaposing documentary takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface