Agnieszka Kurant: exformation

<p>Three characters populate Agnieszka Kurant’s <em>Cutaways</em>, 2013, a short film premiering as part of <em>exformation</em>, the artist’s first exhibition in a United States museum. Played by Dick Miller, Charlotte Rampling, and Abe Vigoda, these characters were found, or more precisely reclaimed, from the cutting room, having been edited out of the final cuts of the feature films for which they were created: <em>Pulp Fiction</em>, <em>Vanishing Point</em>, and <em>The Conversation</em>, respectively. Kurant revives these figures not only by writing a brilliant new script for them but also by casting the original actors: twenty to forty years later, the roles are the same and different…</p>