Olympia I & II

Olympia I & II

8 mins | April 24, 2008

This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother (Gabriel Abrantes) struggle with their incestuous urges; in the second, a prostitute (Abrantes) copes with her loneliness on a slow night for business.

Olympia I & II

8 mins | April 24, 2008

Olympia I & II
This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother (Gabriel Abrantes) struggle with their incestuous urges; in the second, a prostitute (Abrantes) copes with her loneliness on a slow night for business.
Producers
Original title Olympia I & II
Directors Katie Widloski, Gabriel Abrantes
Writers Katie Widloski, Gabriel Abrantes

Cast

Katie Widloski

as Olympia; Miss Strawberry

Gabriel Abrantes

as Duncan; Olympia