Martin Arnold's film work is celebrated worldwide and he has won numerous awards and accolades for his innovative and experimental approach to filmmaking. Trained in psychology in Vienna, Arnold defined his signature style of forward and back looping of images - mostly taken from popular Hollywood films - with a series of outstanding work made between 1989 and 1998 culminating in the release of Alone. Life wastes Andy Hardy (1998). The unlikely source material of the Andy Hardy film series (more than 10 films were released between 1937 and 1958) starring child prodigies Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, was used to create an absorbing and compulsive reworking of familiar material. Using virtuoso editing techniques and introducing a new hypnotic soundtrack to accompany a single scene, Arnold's film drew a provocative sexual energy and psychic intensity from the seemingly banal source material.