Embedded above is the short film Umbrella, the first narrative film by experimental videomaker Cat Tyc. In it, a tormented young woman is continuously assaulted by a man with a long red umbrella. He follows her around everywhere she goes and taps her about the head, shoulders and arms at inappropriate moments, sending her straight to the psychiatrist’s couch.
The woman has been driven mad by the constant tap, tap, tapping. She is so out of sorts by the torment that her anguish bleeds out into the actual video, which shifts and pops with static; frequency shifts and other technological disturbances. Although the story is told in flashback from the woman lying on the shrink’s couch and the film is loaded with ripe symbolism, Tyc doesn’t explicitly go out of her way to explain any of that symbolism, allowing the audience to interpret any which way they choose.
The woman has been driven mad by the constant tap, tap, tapping. She is so out of sorts by the torment that her anguish bleeds out into the actual video, which shifts and pops with static; frequency shifts and other technological disturbances. Although the story is told in flashback from the woman lying on the shrink’s couch and the film is loaded with ripe symbolism, Tyc doesn’t explicitly go out of her way to explain any of that symbolism, allowing the audience to interpret any which way they choose.
- 1/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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