Metamorphosis

Year Published: 1958

Creator: OiO Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Here, Clifford West explores the human body through non-traditional abstract focusing technique. Norma Dupire, the model in the film, writes: "I was a 20-yr-old student wife working as an art model in Detroit and pregnant with my first child. I borrowed a car on a summer morning in 1962 to get out to the studio in Mr. West's house in Bloomfield Hills. It was a three-hour session of easy poses because most of that time Mr. West was adjusting equipment. His directing was quite relaxed, he was paying well and I was happy to have such a neat little job." For more on West, visit http://www.afana.org/westbio.htm