Creative License: Lens Crafter: Alex Prager
By Véronique Hyland and Amanda FitzSimons
L.A.-based photographer and filmmaker Prager is known for her deft use of noir references. Her 2010 four-minute short Despair features Bryce Dallas Howard in a telephone booth, unmistakably recalling Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcok's The Birds. Prager's latest film, La Petite Mort (colloquial français for orgasm), is no different, with lots of retro shots that look as if they could have come from Jirí Menzel's cutting-room floor.