Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the novels that has been adapted for film the most: countless films have been inspired by the Irish writer's pages.
In this work, published in a limited edition of three copies (each one different from the other), Mastrovito presents us with a video projection of eight films based on the story of the Transylvanian Count (from Murnau's Nosferatu in 1922 to Herzog's 1978 version to Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, passing through the Universal versions by Tod Browning in 1931 and Hammer by T. Fisher in 1958), carried out on the pages of 24 different editions
of the novel itself.
The work, in addition to emphasizing the inevitable differences in interpretation not only in terms of direction but even in the translation of the novel itself, takes its cue from the notion of “copyright” with regard to the transposition
of any literary work into film: Nosferatu was, in fact, the first recognized case of plagiarism by a director with regard to a novel. Murnau, while changing the title and the names of the characters, took the story exactly from Stoker's book. The writer's widow sued the director for plagiarism and won,
forcing the director to destroy the film. Some copies were saved only by chance, allowing us to still admire this masterpiece today. The case set a legal precedent and since then, copyright has been extended to include any
film adaptations of literary works.
This work forms the basis of the animated feature film NYsferatu - Symphony of a Century, which Mastrovito will produce between 2014 and 2017 and which, on its first American tour, was to be screened on hundreds of different copies of the novel Dracula.