Looking for Looking For Richard
Captured through the stretched eye of a panorama camera, these images fracture and recompose Looking for Richard, transforming Al Pacino’s cinematic excavation of Shakespeare’s Richard III into a ghostly glitch buffering in suspended time.
The distortion and layering of frames dissolve the rigid boundaries between performer and role, documentary and drama, past and present.
Figures emerge in spectral duality—one half lost in motion blur, the other locked in gaze—echoing the play’s themes of duplicity, fate, and the unstable nature of power. The medieval and the modern interlace, much like the film itself, which dissects and reconstructs Shakespeare’s text for contemporary understanding. Arrows suspended mid-air, faces caught in half-existence—these warped glimpses suggest not just a search for Richard, but a meditation on the mutable nature of identity, history, and cinematic storytelling itself.
