Vault

Synopsis

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Employing the hyperbolic, melodramatic syntax of Hollywood movies and commercial TV, they decode the Freudian symbology and manipulative tactics that underlie media representations of romantic love, and expose the power of this media “reality” to construct personal fictions. Using the psychoanalytic language of advertising, cinematic and television texts to tell the love story of a pole vaulter/concert cellist and a cowboy/Abstract Expressionist painter, they rupture the narrative with psychosexual metaphors and references to pop media and art. Self-conscious strategies such as overtly Freudian symbols, flashback reconstructions of childhood traumas, Wagnerian orchestration and loaded cliches are wielded with deft irony.

Main Cast

Kim Claybough

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Brian Rosewell

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Norman Yonemoto Bruce Yonemoto
Production	Producer	Bruce Yonemoto
Camera	Director of Photography	Nikolai Ursin
Sound	Sound	Steve Paxton
Writing	Writer	Bruce Yonemoto Norman Yonemoto
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