Every night her husband Thomas Hutter is away, ’scharacter, Ellen, has nightmares about the vampire, Count Orlock. She convulses, sleepwalks, and moans as if something has come over her. Though Orlock is vile, the erotic dreams force her to be curious about a side of herself that she’s been told to repress—and clearly no longer can.
“There are still things that women don't talk about with each other or admit to. In different cultures, it's completely taboo, or your body does not belong to you to a certain extent. It belongs to your husband or to the patriarchies,” she says.
“For Ellen to find her way through all of that and then to reach her own conclusion was an interesting journey to take with her.” I was also equally aware of the wonderful visual artist Louise Bourgeois, a French artist in her 90s, and she's done a lot of sculptures called the “Arch of Hysteria” dealing with these images of women in cages or domestic spaces. For me, that was a perfect image to work with.
I was surprised at her flexibility. I said to her, ‘How come you are so flexible? Do you do yoga or something?’ She said, ‘No, nothing.’ She's more flexible than the average dancer in her back and elsewhere.
So I was able to go, ‘Right, that's it. Beautiful. I can use the arch of the hysteria.
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