Dennis Adams: Double Feature

Dennis Adam's Double Feature is a series of composite stills collaged from individual frames grabbed from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1959) and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1965). In Adam's constructed images Jean Seberg walks out of Breathless and into the demonstrations, checkpoints and skirmishes of the Algerian Revolution. Seberg, a flirtatious young American hawking newspapers in Paris, is recast as an allegorical figure wandering the war-torn streets of Algiers, where she traces the fault line between the role of messenger bearing the news and frontline witness to its making.