Only One Person Can Watch Willem Dafoe's New Movie at a Time

Sculpt: Eye of the Duck, directed by French artist Loris Gréaud and starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling, is currently being screened only at Dark Mofo in Hobart, Tasmania. The festival limits each showing to a single viewer, with just 90 people granted the full experience.

The project has evolved since an initial 2016 presentation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which drew fewer than 500 attendees, and Gréaud has recut the film six times. The work’s premise follows an international market obsessed with new shapes and experiences, where thought recording and fascination with inner space become commodities pursued for moments of pure intensity.

The viewing begins before the screen: ticket-holders sit on a red bench, meet a driver who arrives in a BMW, and ride to the venue while Dafoe’s voice plays through the car’s speakers, recounting a murder.

Australia, Hobart

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