Gustave Deutsch's Hopper Film Shirley: Visions of Reality

Austrian director Gustave Deutsch (b. 1952, Vienna) created the experimental feature film Shirley: Visions of Reality, which has toured globally over the past two years to critical and popular acclaim. The film traces the life of a woman from the 1930s to the 1960s, portrayed by dancer and choreographer Stephanie Cummings. Structured in thirteen segments, each corresponds to a well-known Edward Hopper painting, including New York Movie, Office at Night, and Woman in the Sun. Each scene extends six minutes before or after the moment captured by Hopper. The paintings appear chronologically from 1931 to 1963, with an introductory sequence based on Chair Car (1965). Two supplementary videos are provided: the official trailer and a video essay by film critic José Sarmiento Hinojosa, published on Fandor.com, which juxtaposes film scenes with original canvases, set to Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman.