It is only moments since the young girl Regan Theresa MacNeil interrupted the party, addressing Captain Billy Cutshaw directly: “You’re gonna die up there”. After which she peed obliviously on the carpet, right there in the bourgeois Washington residence. Now the astronaut Billy Cutshaw - who first appeared in The Exorcist (1973) prior to a space mission, and later reappeared, as committed mental patient due to his refusal to travel to the moon, in The Ninth Configuration (1980) – is driving through the dark streets of Washington DC. During his drive, from the exact address of the original party, across Capitol Hill into the ghettoized neighborhood of Anacostia, and from one Hollywood fiction to the next, Billy Cutshaw will meet his future self, who will convince him not to go to the moon.
Swerve (You're Gonna Die Up There)
3 Channel HD Video, 10’00”, 2016
Credits
Billy Cutshaw (Past and Present): Peter Juel Bonneman
Stand-in (Billy Cutshaw): Andreas Christensen
Score performed by Orchestra Con Fuoco with conductor Jørgen Fuglebæk.
DP: Adam Jandrup
1st Assistant Camera: Kasper Loft Bylov
Chief Lighting Technician: Noah Lynnerup
Lighting Technician: Kasper Mønster
Dolly Grip: Rune Egegaard
Production Sound Mixer: Jonatan Jacoby
Production Manager: Camilla Agerskov
Production Assistant: Sissel Abel
1st Runner: Emilie Viktoria Kjær Næss-Schmidt
2nd Runner: Niels Billeskov
Sound Design: Jacques Pedersen
Score Composer: Tine Vitkov
Thanks to: Tina Helen, Kamma Listoft, Jacob Lillemose, Lui Gram Mokrzycki, Silas Inoue, Asbjørn Skou, Theis Wendt, Falck.
Supported by: Danish Arts Council, KBH Kommunes Billedkunstudvalg, Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, Danish Arts Workshops, Danish Conductors Association, Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art.