Willie Doherty's video piece 'Re-Run' 2002 shows a man running along a bridge at night, projected onto two screens opposite one another. On one screen he runs towards the viewer and on the other he runs away, in an eternal silent loop. The man becomes a universal figure, caught in a perpetual no-man’s-land, never reaching his destination or escaping his pursuer.
The video creates an overwhelming sense of fear; it is like your worst nightmare, being chased and unable to escape. The fear is displayed through his facial expressions; a look of pure panic. This video has the ability to make you feel the subject's terror and enters great depths of panic and desperation.
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