Video Art of the Week: “Greta Garbo’s Lost Screen Test”

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Video Art of the Week: "Greta Garbo's Lost Screen Test"
      

The Britannica Blog is proud to announce that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, the "underground video artists network," will be highlighting here one film each week from its outstanding collection of contemporary short videos by current filmmakers and artists.  Some background on today's feature:

Actor/Director bio:

"Ty Jeffries is an actor/composer/lyricist/writer/singer.  His chosen interface is to perform as a woman."

Filmmaker's description of film:

"In 1949 movie star Greta Garbo was going to make a comeback. She tested out with four cameramen ostensibly to see how they would photograph her. But it was really to see how photogenic she was after eight years away from the screen. The money men pulled out, and she never made another film. This is my interpretation of one of her final screen tests."

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