THE AMPUTEES
PHOTO-PLAY BY JOAO MACHADO

The Photo-play “The Amputees” has a cinematic narative approach, also influenced by comic books, graphic art, illustrated story books and the “photonovelas” popular in Mexico and Italy during the first half of the 20th century.

 

The photo-play “THE AMPUTEES” tells the fascinating story of Peter Henry, a young photographer whom after surviving a suicide attempt, finds himself more alone and disconnected from the world then ever before. Instinctively, Peter begins a process of emotional/internal reconstruction through the images he creates. First, he pieces together his x-rays taken at the hospital to make a full body x-ray image of himself. Later, taking pictures of amputees. With the picture of an armless man, for example, Peter photographs his own arm and connects them together creating a “complete” human being. His hybrid creatures help him find a place where he can finally “fit in”. The story escalates into a surprising finale when he meets Valentine, a deaf and dumb, nymphomaniac. “The Amputees” tells the dramatic and poetic journey throughout the process of loss., which turns us into emotional amputees and at the same time it’s what connects us to each other.

Copyright ©2005 João Machado
Registered at the National Library of Brazil.

French version distributed by TerreNoire
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Selling points in Paris

CENTRE POMPIDOU
librarie Flammarion
19, rue Beaubourg

JEU DE PAUME
7, place de la concorde

MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
82, rue miron

ARTCURIAL
7, rond-point des champs elysees

LIBRAIRIE IVON LAMBERT
108, rue vieille du temple

FLORENCE LOEWY
9/11, rue de thorigny

LA CHAMBRE CLAIRE
14, rue saint sulpice

COMPTOIR DE L`IMAGE
44, rue sevigne

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