Sixteen Candles, 1998, video, color, sound, total running time 36 seconds
Sixteen Candles is a surgical substitution of one character for another in the 1984 John Hughes film Sixteen Candles. The character of Samantha Baker (played by Molly Ringwald) is replaced with “The Geek” (played by Anthony Michael Hall) in a fantasy sequence between Ringwald and the handsome boy of her dreams, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). What was once a stock romantic scene for a mid-80’s teen movie becomes slightly less stock as a result of the new dynamic, as well as explicitly sexual due to the addition of new overdubbed dialogue. This project is a collaboration with Tom Kehn.
