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TOM BENEDEK

Shot By The Writer
shot by the writer

With a professional screenwriting career spanning three decades, including Cocoon and Free Willy, Tom Benedek has done his share of hard time in development hell. He needed to consolidate the boxes of pages and research materials from all the unmade movies. Seeking closure, Tom fixed on the idea of some sort of memorial. The image of a screenplay, riddled with bullet holes and bronzed like a baby shoe stayed in his mind. SHOT BY THE WRITER is composed of 5 lost wax bronze sculptures of screenplays in various "poses" (GUNPLAY #1 - #5) and 14 photographs (PLOT HOLES #6-#20) representing the 21 writing projects permanently out of his grasp. This work, controlled from beginning to end by the artist, has become a very significant personal calling.

PELOPONNESIA: A TORTURED NARRATIVE
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Heated Words

"When Pen USA, the international writers’ rights organization, asked me to set ablaze and photograph seven of the best books ever written, in the name of artistic freedom and the First Amendment, I agreed very quickly." Pen USA holds a benefit reading, Forbidden Fruit, during which actors read from seven selected titles on the American Library Association’s list of one hundred most challenged books of the preceding decade.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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