Drawing his own inspiration from film noir, Edward Hopper, the great master of American realism, influenced cinema to a nearly unparalleled extent: The Bates Motel in Hitchcock’s Psycho, David Lynch’s sombre visions of American suburbia, and Wim Wenders’ countless homages are all “Hopper-esque“, now a common descriptor for a distinctive film aesthetic. This interaction between painting and cinematic storytelling shines through in the film Shirley – Visions of Reality by Austrian media artist Gustav Deutsch. The film has already won multiple Austrian Film Awards. Based on 13 of