Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo (2016)
BFI Southbank, Blue Room, 27 May 2016.
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 8M
Director : Stefano Miraglia
Sinopse
"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the ‘actual’ ‘Mona Lisa’ when I was about thirteen. Of course I had seen dozens of reproductions in books and postcards by then and the popular mythology of the enigmatic smile was already well engrained in my mind. My strongest impression, as I recall, was how small and unsurprising it was – a heavily protected cultural icon – no longer really a picture – and I was much more excited by the painting of the distant landscape than by the face. My own ‘version’ of ‘la Giaconda’ was never an homage, nor like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, an attack on its cultural power. Instead it came from a fascination with change and transformation – maybe also with arbitrary appropriation." Malcolm Le Grice
"Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times)", "The Alphabet", "The Grandmother", "The Amputee", "The Cowboy and the Frenchman" e "Premonitions Following an Evil Deed".
O filme apresenta um velho homem vivendo sozinho em uma cidade que se tornou submersa. A água está subindo lentamente, e para manter a sua construção original, coloca cubos em cima de cubos para se manter fora da água. Assim quando ele desce e vê a níveis anteriores de sua casa (hoje submersa) ele relembra vários momentos de sua vida.
Glimpses and sparkles of light lead us onto the dreamy path of a timeless place, immersed within ancient nature. There, the ancestors move beyond the darkness, seeking to create another (im)possible world.
Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man. The action takes place on the Day of Soviet Cosmonautics, April 12, one of the last years of the USSR. Outside the window, it is gradually getting warmer, the onset of spring is felt, promising hope for the possibility of changes in the country. The hero of the film is fond of space. The young man, who idolizes Gagarin, is engaged in reconstruction, making the uniform in which the cosmonaut walked in the prime of his glory. Our hero is also a film enthusiast. He makes films with stories of space flights and shows them to his friends. The film is stylized as amateur films of the 1980s and was shot on a 16-mm color film made by the company" Svema", made in the Soviet Union. The quality of this film allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the time of the film, which is dedicated to Soviet cosmonautics and Edward D. Wood Jr.
Maya Deren é uma mulher aprisionada dentro de casa, sufocada pelo cotidiano doméstico. Ela é atormentada por múltiplas visões, se despedaça em diferentes personalidades, e não consegue diferenciar muito bem, enquanto cochila, o sonho da realidade. Seu olhar para por longos segundos em qualquer objeto doméstico: uma faca em cima do pão, a porta destrancada, o telefone fora do gancho.
Investigating autumn, temporal alterations, and their effect on movement
Quase destruída após a invasão de uma espécie alienígena hostil e tecnologicamente superior, a humanidade restante deve reunir forças para continuar resistindo e lutando pela liberdade nesta nova e sombria realidade.
A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She soon realizes she is part of a student film.
Cremaster foi feito durante um período de oito anos (1994-2002) e culminou em uma grande exposição do museu organizado por Nancy Spector do Museu Solomon R. Guggenheim , em Nova York, que viajou para o Museu Ludwig , em Colónia e do Musée Moderne arte d' em Paris, de 2002-03. Colaborador de longa data do Barney Jonathan Bepler compostas e arranjadas as trilhas sonoras para os filmes.
Dance becomes a vehicle to show love's different phases. Amor y Asfixia consists of three scenes that seek to dismantle certain social stereotypes linked to the women's body and its role in dance. It's a short film that experiments with the human body to initiate a bigger discussion.
Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a teenage boy from his class named Toni, and the two engage in a brief sexual tryst. As the relationship between teacher and student begins to develop, some dark truths emerge about the young man and his mysterious group of friends.
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of Hell, is on smaller film stock, taking the center of the frame. Montages of color move rapidly with a star and the edge of a lighted moon briefly visible. Purgation is back to full frame; blurs of color occasionally slow down then freeze. From time to time, an image, such as a window or a face, is distinguishable for a moment. In "existence is song," colors swirl then flash in and out of view. Behind the vivid colors are momentary glimpses of volcanic activity.
A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about, and reaches for the moon. Although music abounds and the children of the wood are there at play, Pierrot is melancholy and alone. Harlequin appears, brimming with confidence and energy. He conjures the lovely Colombina. Pierrot is dazzled. But can the course of true love run smooth?
Filmed in France in 1950, it was not completed nor released until 1971
An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre juxtapositions and startling synchronicities
This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of psychological cathexis as designed by Freud in his first (and unfinished) book on the subject - "Toward a Scientific Psychology." (SB)
Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
A young man and his dog encounter a sinister force while on a walk through the woods.
