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Shia LaBeouf gives bizarre silent video interview, says he was raped during art installation

By Scott Smith

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Actor Shia LaBeouf one-upped his recent bizarre behavior with a silent hour-long video interview and a claim that he was raped during his #IAmSorry art event in Los Angeles.

LaBeouf and writer Aimee Cliff of Dazed and Confused magazine conducted an interview by email over a couple of weeks, then met in London to record the video sit-down with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads. The video consists of side-by-side video images of the two sitting in chairs looking at each other, occasionally smiling and laughing awkwardly. LaBeouf was in town to promote the World War II tank movie "Fury," in which he plays a major role.

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In arranging the interview, LaBeouf told Cliff, "I'm present in the magazine only in words obtained digitally and online I'm present only through a mute physical presence and the reality of my self lies somewhere between and beyond the two it's thoroughly metamodern I think."

INTERVIEW from Rönkkö / Turner on Vimeo.

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During LaBeouf's one-week #IAmSorry art installation in February, he sat alone in a room with a paper bag over his head bearing the message "I am not famous anymore." "Implements" including a whip were provided in the art gallery and visitors were allowed to interact with LaBeouf one-on-one.

In the email interview with Cliff, LaBeouf claims that one woman came in and whipped him for 10 minutes and then stripped him naked and raped him with her boyfriend standing outside. LaBeouf said his girlfriend was in line for the installation and confronted him about the incident. It's not clear if it was reported to police.

LaBeouf's art installation was in response to his admission that a short film he made plagiarized from a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.

LaBeouf has since displayed often strange behavior, including being charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and criminal trespass after drunken behavior at a Broadway performance of "Cabaret" in June.

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