Douglas Gordon's fatal attraction to Alfred Hitchcock took a surprising turn in a major work premiered in London - Feature Film.
Music always underscored Hitchcock's vision - most notably through his collaboration with one of the greatest of all film composers, Bernard Herrmann. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho, the chase in North by Northwest or the love scenes in Vertigo - and you hear Herrmann's music as you recall Hitchcock's film. Like Hitchcock, Herrmann was an aficionado of romantic obsession and a master of suspense.
In Feature Film, Douglas Gordon arranged a divorce between sound and vision - and orchestrated an affair between what you remember and what you see.
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