VertiGhost

Synopsis

VertiGhost, a newly commissioned work by Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Fine Arts Museums, draws the viewer into a meditation about notions of authenticity and the construction of identity. Inspired by the Legion of Honor’s role as a location for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), Hershman Leeson explores the tension at the core of Vertigo between the difficulty or lack of desire to distinguish between reality and fiction versus the pursuit of truth. The eponymous ghost of Hershman Leeson’s project is the elusive nature of a singular identity that haunts the characters in the 1958 film, its most enigmatic representation being the painting of a supposed distant relative of the film’s protagonist Madeleine, around which her character and fate is imagined.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Directing	Director	Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Writing	Writer	Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Production	Producer	Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Department	Role	Name

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