TOM BENEDEK
Shot By The Writer
With a professional screenwriting career spanning three
decades, including Cocoon and Free Willy, Tom Benedek has
done his share of hard time in development hell. He needed
to consolidate the boxes of pages and research materials
from all the unmade movies. Seeking closure, Tom fixed on
the idea of some sort of memorial. The image of a screenplay,
riddled with bullet holes and bronzed like a baby shoe stayed
in his mind. SHOT BY THE WRITER is composed of 5 lost wax
bronze sculptures of screenplays in various "poses" (GUNPLAY
#1 - #5) and 14 photographs (PLOT HOLES #6-#20) representing
the 21 writing projects permanently out of his grasp. This
work, controlled from beginning to end by the artist, has
become a very significant personal calling. |
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