Introduced by Patricia Woodbridge, Art Director

A psychological thriller set in 1954, Martin Scorsese's most recent film follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he investigates the disappearance of a patient from an institute for the criminally insane. Sequestered on an isolated island in Boston Harbor, Ashecliffe Hospital is a sinister facility where the very architecture seems to ooze moldy psychosis. The eerily lit corridors, imposing cells, labyrinthine catwalks, and foreboding archways rally in the service of Scorsese's unsettling, gothic vision. Patricia Woodbridge will talk about her participation in this project, where she worked alongside Academy Award-winning production designer Dante Ferretti (The Age of Innocence, The Aviator), a longtime Scorsese collaborator. The setting, Shutter Island, is a creepy concoction of locales, some built sets, some found edifices, which were then compiled into an ominous compound ringed by the harsh cliffs of a rocky island. As the story's investigation proceeds and Teddy Daniels begins to doubt even his own perceptions, the stark design of Shutter Island reinforces his doubt like a damp apparition.