An Interview with Leeorah Hursky
Meeting film director Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu of the film “Abused in America” was natural and magical: she read in a newspaper about their work and she wrote them.
(L.H.) “I liked the controversy in their story of Abused in America… the fact that Bruno and Daria are not afraid to go into the dark areas…. They take hard subjects that are uncomfortable to a lot of people and act like brave hearted warriors… they would go where dark is and not be afraid about it…”
Her artistic residence will take her in 2011 to the set in Brasov (Romania) where she will paint inspired by the theme of the film and by the actors’ performances.
(L.H.) “I’ve never been on a big movie set. While working on the set of Abused in America, everyone will need to get in touch with their dark side and I think I will be helping others to create their contact with the dark… but also install balance.
To paint the darkness, the angst and the fear will make beauty arise… for pretty pictures you use the camera but I want to paint the deepest dark. My residence will be a gift: to guide the people through their darkness… I will be a tunnel moving the people from darkness to light. “
The technique applied during her residence, that of exorcism and of mirroring the darkest emotions is the same one applied in her healing sessions and also the artistic philosophy behind her paintings.
(L.H.) ”One has to actually save and embrace your darkness, dark is nothing that you have to run away from …. When people have dark energy I would stay there and try to call out the dark.
When you suppress the dark you become a killer and an abuser.”
For Leeorah’s acting role in Abused in America she will apply the same exercise. Inspired by the image of a lascivious singer lying on a piano in an Australian café, Leeorah painted, in many of her paintings, the image of the woman without shame, of a woman becoming a piece of flesh…
L.H.) “When I paint I enter in a different realm. For this character I just let the painting come out of me… let the ladies of the night come out of me. This is how I exorcised the actress inside me.”
The production of the film which the producer Trifu and the director Pischiutta will make in Romania focuses on physical, mental and sexual abuse, exercised on men, women and children from the American society. Abused in America comes after the latest production signed by Adhara Properties and presented by Toronto Pictures: Punctured Hope.
