"Haxan: Reducida" is an abridged recreation of the 1922 silent documentary horror film "Haxan." Using new machine learning / AI videography, and English to Spanish translators, select scenes from "Haxan" are recreated in the style of a lost middle class, leisure, and vacation. This film reinterprets the phantasmic beliefs of witchcraft in the Middle Ages and applies them to modern contemporary environments, such as the motel, the home, and the vacation spot. All of these sites become fully out of reach in the new era of growing class differences and irreversible destruction. However, in this world of “Haxan: Reducida”, it is in the superstitious present that enjoyment is still considered possible but unsustainable.
"Haxan: Reducida" is an abridged recreation of the 1922 silent documentary horror film "Haxan." Using new machine learning / AI videography, and English to Spanish translators, select scenes from "Haxan" are recreated in the style of a lost middle class, leisure, and vacation. This film reinterprets the phantasmic beliefs of witchcraft in the Middle Ages and applies them to modern contemporary environments, such as the motel, the home, and the vacation spot. All of these sites become fully out of reach in the new era of growing class differences and irreversible destruction. However, in this world of “Haxan: Reducida”, it is in the superstitious present that enjoyment is still considered possible but unsustainable.
Michael Mersereau
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