McGuffin
McGuffin
Hollington & Kyprianou
Installation view, Visions in the Nunnery, London, 2000
super 8 projector, pipe, smoke box, 38 calibre snub nosed revolver, desk
A snub-nosed 38-calibre revolver sits on a desk, lit by a film projector. A pipe running from the projectors fan is attached to a smoke box within the desk, driving out smoke from the revolver barrel as if just fired.
The title 'McGuffin' is taken from an idea, misattributed to the film director Alfred Hitchcock of a 'MacGuffin' - the use of a device in a filmic plot that gives it an internal logic that one used, can be dispensed with.