Body Double 29

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Richard Marquand's The Return of The Jedi

A woman visits a psychiatrist, but she has a hidden agenda. Likewise, the therapist is not all that he appears to be; he listens to the analysand with concern but also with an underlying, almost sinister, sense of lust. The scene is from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, in which nothing is as it appears, and in which its protagonists role-play, play-act and dress-up. A perfect text, then, to serve as the template for Brice Dellsperger’s Body Double 37.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In A Year With Thirteen Moon

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Body Double

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blow Out

For Body Double 32, Dellsperger takes the second scene from Carrie. Played by androgynous model Alex Wetter, a happy gang of girls are whooping it up under the showers in a high school locker room where the rows of lockers seem to double up and form a space-time loop. The loop comes to an end as, one by one, they disappear into the steam and turn into infinite variations on one of their number : Carrie. Still under the shower, Carrie herself seems unaware of what is going on around her. With a touch of sensuality the camera suggests that the child is becoming a woman. Terror-stricken, Carrie sees that her hands are covered with blood.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Donna Summer in Bad Girls