"Deep Water", an Interpretation of Edvard Munch's The Scream

Although a slight shift here and there, my short film interpretation of The Scream, titled "Deep Water", is told entirely through the perspective of the screamer. We have no choice but to believe him that he is being followed, we are locked in his mind and can only see through his eyes and feel what he feels: tension and paranoia. I attempted to evoke these emotions in a variety of methods. The pace of the film begins slow and at a walking speed, it then gradually builds up with faster cuts, faster music and slanted off balance compositions to convey a sense of uneasiness. My film attempts to reveal what has taken place before the event that Munch's work lives in. The feel of this prequel is summed up well by Ragna Stang's description of The Scream, "Rarely has the blind panic of human loneliness been portrayed with such force...".3 The screamer himself starts looking behind at the men more often and starts walking faster in relation to how close the men are becoming to him. In reference to Munch's epigraph "...Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stopped, leaned against the railing, dead tired. And I looked at the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and city...", the black and white sky beats red during the screamer's point of view shots.4 Expression and narrative are mended together here, and run parallel.

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