Alice Anderson's Haunting Film at Galerie Yvon Lambert

Alice Anderson's short film 'La Femme qui se vit disparaître' (8 min, 2006, shot in Wiltshire) premiered at Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris from February 3 to March 3, 2007. Born in London in 1976 and raised in France, Anderson works across photography, installation, and film. Since her 2000 video 'Ma mère', she has created unsettling works compared to Freudian fables. The film features three actresses: a cold, dark mother; a white ghost; and an eight-year-old girl with flaming blonde hair, red dress, and scarlet shoes. Anderson cites Angela Carter's novels and Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' as influences. The narrative involves a ghost recalling being banished by her mother for a mysterious crime, with themes of guilt and lack of love. The film's psychological tension and aesthetic evoke Hitchcock's 'Marnie' (1964). The installation includes a low-ceilinged white room (1.60 m) leading to a six-seat screening room, and 'Invigilator' (2007), a 40 cm plastiline sculpture of the artist dressed in blue like a security guard on a high chair. Other objects from the film are displayed: a cage under black cloth, a rocking horse, stirrup, dolls, and models of the tower. Anderson's work explores fairy-tale symbolism, female rivalry, and shrinking worlds.