Art Fifa 2005 Coming Up.
Well I got a few reviews coming up (I'm compiling links for the next one), but in the meantime I'll throw a few words about the FIFA (festival of films on art) that is starting tomorrow.
Well, basically, I just browsed the categories rapidly on their website, and here
are films that attracted my attention:
ARCHITECTURE:
- An obligatory documentary on Tadao Ando working on a new project ("The Architect, The Kids, And The Acorns", 2002)
- A film on the bulbous houses of Antti Lovag ("Les Maisons D'Antti Lovag")
- "Countdown For The Parco Della Musica" is about the construction of apparently the largest musical hall yet in Europa by pompous and all-over-the-place Renzo Piano.
- "Living Space" is about Frank Gehry and a few others receiving an heritage to build cancer treatment centres.
- If you're interested in the early construction of american urbanity, try "Tall: The American Skyscraper And Louis Sullivan".
- The best of all is "Heavenly Mud", which is about African architecture.
DESIGN:
- I am not missing the film on Art Nouveau key artist "Alphonse Mucha".
- There's a strange film about Bic stylos ("Le Bic Cristal").
- What would have been Art Deco without the flamboyance of some "Lalique, L'Homme De Verre" glass ?
PAINTING:
- There are a couple films on Quebecois plastician Molinari, including "La Derniere Conversation", which documents his activities in the last years before his recent death (2004).
- There are a few portraits of the usual great surrealists: Dali ("The Dali Dimension", Max Ernst ("My Vagabond Life, My Disquiet"), Roberto Matta ("The Eye Of A Surrealist"), and perhaps a couple others.
- "New York, 1943" is a french film giving a fresh perspective on the explosion of the Ab-Ex scene in New York of the 1940's.
- An hour with Antoni Tapiès ("Tapiès Tea") sounds like a great time.
- Are you intrigued by Lucian Freud ? "Portraits" is interviewing his paint models (often friends) to find out about him.
- If you wish to ponder on canadiana versus modernism, go see "The Pines Of Emily Carr". Or compare it with a film on Caspar David Friedrich.
- Finally but not last, do not miss the documentary on the ever ackward children picturist Henry Darger ("In The Realms Of The Unreal")
Comic:
- 3 documentaries on 3 dark artists of the comic industry: Art Spiegelman and his terrible Maus ("Le Miroir De L'Histoire"), french dark surrealist Fred ("Derrière Le Miroir") and recent scenemaker Chris Ware ("Un Art De La Mémoire").
PHOTOGRAPHY:
- a documentary on American portraitist Richard Avedon sounds like the piece de résistance of this section( "Darkness And Light").
- I would definitely go see "Sam Taylor-Woods" documentary, though I expect it to
be kinda formal.
- The same usual biggies are always here: Helmut Newton, Henrier Cartier-Bressons, Robert Frank.
- "Contact" is still here to present short portrait of more contemporary artists: this time Rineke Dijkstra, Roni Horn and Wolfgang Stillmans. Here hoping you can catch these as opener for longer documentaries of interest.
CONTEMPORARY ART (SCULPTURE, ETC...):
- There is a small animation on Giacometti that sounds pretty well done ("Eternal Gaze").
- She died a bit too prematurely but left a mark that is increasing in recent years: Helen Chadwick got a documentary here blunty titled "The Art Of Helen Chardwick".
- Grahame Weinbren is considered a pioneer of intractive cinema (any retro any place?). The film is titled "Frames", stealing the name of a recent project.
- A "Spot" documentary on light and weather artist Olafur Eliasson is better than nothing (and worth a dozen other documentaries).
- "The Saatchi Phenomenon": name says it all. You decide. I'm definitely going.
- A film on Panaramenko's retro machines sounds promissing, despite the ridiculous title ("La Magie De L'Art" ).
- Land artist Frans Krajcberg is less known to my ears but sounds like a graet alternative to Andy Goldsworthy ("Portrait D"Une Révolte" ).
- If you love Video Art there is an unexpected documentary on the carreer of "The Wilson Sisters".
- The proof that being a contemporary artist can mean being stupid is demonstrated in "Casuistry: The Art Of Killing A Cat".
- There is a whole film on a single installation by Antony Gormley in Norway (Broken Column").
- They are more than a couple documentaries on the big artworld focus of recent which is the China contemporary art scene. They are a few portraits of other asian contemporary artists certainly worth a catch.
- Last but not least, a short 11 min portrait of a Richard Serra Ellipse set in Italy.
THEATRE:
- There's an opportunity to compare Kabuki and Nô Japanese theatre with two documentaries.
- A film about Luigi Nono's piece "Intollerenza" which was an audacious affair.
CINEMA:
- "Cinema Dali" is about the films of this celebrated artist.
- Absolute best apprehended film of the festival: Aleksandre Sokourov presenting a portrait of his mentor, Andrei Tarkovsky. Two very rare cineasts that are as much artists as they are film directors. The film is titled "Élégie De Moscou".
- An intriguing post-mortem "Autobiography" film on François Truffaut.
- What does poetic realism means in 2005? Try revisit Marcel Carné with "La Caméra Vivante".
- Another good film must be the one on Antonioni ("Pictures And Times"). "Cinema in the 60's definitely is hard to beat.
- A rare film: the portrait of Perotinus Magnus, the medieval key composer of early polyphony ("Thy Kiss Of Divine Nature" is the title).
MUSIC (AND DANCE):
- In "Notes Interdites" is covered the whole avant-garde of 20th Century Russian music and how it deal within harsh political context.
- 3 hours of film on Mozart's "Genius".
- A profile on Arvo Pärt, neo-ancestral composer of excellence ("24 Préludes Pour Une Fugue").
- Not exactly music, but: don't miss this presentation of Noémie Lafrance's "Noir" site-situ choreography which was endorsed by the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
ART THEORY AND HISTORY:
- Should The antique "Elgin Marbles" of the British Museum return to Greece, in their original settings?
- A film about the problematic of identity "copyright", an issue I find of importance (contrarely to intellectual property which I find to be materialistic).
Title is "La Rue Zone Interdite".
- Germaine Greer is a theorist claiming that the archetypal representation of beauty is a "Boy" and not the usual perception that it must be a "Girl". She arguments this humoristically through the visit of many old museums.
- The life of collector Hilla Von Rebay and how she built the Guggenheim Museum collection.
- Should contemporary artist care about who owns their work and who shows them?
The issue might seem a little exaggerated but the question still holds in "Collection F. C. Flick"..
- There's a film about Piri Thomas, new york poet, writer and performer, in the Literature section.
Done.
I don't think I'm seeing all this, but they are my pre-selection
for the festival. Hope that helped in any ways.
I'm not going to start a long critique but it's when you look at certain sections, like the music section or the literature, that you realize the programmators are being annoyingly conservative. Like if anyone who likes Chadwick or Olafur Eliasson means that they are listening to Mozart and Beethoven. I'm shocked that money to organize these events pass in the hands of people who are not able to prove how they are passionate about what they do. They are a lot of spheres left uncover. This festival is way too tranquille. It is in great need of some ferocious, interdisciplinary, punch-knock curating. Enough of Michelangelo, will you??
Westmounts grandmas are better starting wearing spikes on their heads.
Cheers,
Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@homail.com
Well, basically, I just browsed the categories rapidly on their website, and here
are films that attracted my attention:
ARCHITECTURE:
- An obligatory documentary on Tadao Ando working on a new project ("The Architect, The Kids, And The Acorns", 2002)
- A film on the bulbous houses of Antti Lovag ("Les Maisons D'Antti Lovag")
- "Countdown For The Parco Della Musica" is about the construction of apparently the largest musical hall yet in Europa by pompous and all-over-the-place Renzo Piano.
- "Living Space" is about Frank Gehry and a few others receiving an heritage to build cancer treatment centres.
- If you're interested in the early construction of american urbanity, try "Tall: The American Skyscraper And Louis Sullivan".
- The best of all is "Heavenly Mud", which is about African architecture.
DESIGN:
- I am not missing the film on Art Nouveau key artist "Alphonse Mucha".
- There's a strange film about Bic stylos ("Le Bic Cristal").
- What would have been Art Deco without the flamboyance of some "Lalique, L'Homme De Verre" glass ?
PAINTING:
- There are a couple films on Quebecois plastician Molinari, including "La Derniere Conversation", which documents his activities in the last years before his recent death (2004).
- There are a few portraits of the usual great surrealists: Dali ("The Dali Dimension", Max Ernst ("My Vagabond Life, My Disquiet"), Roberto Matta ("The Eye Of A Surrealist"), and perhaps a couple others.
- "New York, 1943" is a french film giving a fresh perspective on the explosion of the Ab-Ex scene in New York of the 1940's.
- An hour with Antoni Tapiès ("Tapiès Tea") sounds like a great time.
- Are you intrigued by Lucian Freud ? "Portraits" is interviewing his paint models (often friends) to find out about him.
- If you wish to ponder on canadiana versus modernism, go see "The Pines Of Emily Carr". Or compare it with a film on Caspar David Friedrich.
- Finally but not last, do not miss the documentary on the ever ackward children picturist Henry Darger ("In The Realms Of The Unreal")
Comic:
- 3 documentaries on 3 dark artists of the comic industry: Art Spiegelman and his terrible Maus ("Le Miroir De L'Histoire"), french dark surrealist Fred ("Derrière Le Miroir") and recent scenemaker Chris Ware ("Un Art De La Mémoire").
PHOTOGRAPHY:
- a documentary on American portraitist Richard Avedon sounds like the piece de résistance of this section( "Darkness And Light").
- I would definitely go see "Sam Taylor-Woods" documentary, though I expect it to
be kinda formal.
- The same usual biggies are always here: Helmut Newton, Henrier Cartier-Bressons, Robert Frank.
- "Contact" is still here to present short portrait of more contemporary artists: this time Rineke Dijkstra, Roni Horn and Wolfgang Stillmans. Here hoping you can catch these as opener for longer documentaries of interest.
CONTEMPORARY ART (SCULPTURE, ETC...):
- There is a small animation on Giacometti that sounds pretty well done ("Eternal Gaze").
- She died a bit too prematurely but left a mark that is increasing in recent years: Helen Chadwick got a documentary here blunty titled "The Art Of Helen Chardwick".
- Grahame Weinbren is considered a pioneer of intractive cinema (any retro any place?). The film is titled "Frames", stealing the name of a recent project.
- A "Spot" documentary on light and weather artist Olafur Eliasson is better than nothing (and worth a dozen other documentaries).
- "The Saatchi Phenomenon": name says it all. You decide. I'm definitely going.
- A film on Panaramenko's retro machines sounds promissing, despite the ridiculous title ("La Magie De L'Art" ).
- Land artist Frans Krajcberg is less known to my ears but sounds like a graet alternative to Andy Goldsworthy ("Portrait D"Une Révolte" ).
- If you love Video Art there is an unexpected documentary on the carreer of "The Wilson Sisters".
- The proof that being a contemporary artist can mean being stupid is demonstrated in "Casuistry: The Art Of Killing A Cat".
- There is a whole film on a single installation by Antony Gormley in Norway (Broken Column").
- They are more than a couple documentaries on the big artworld focus of recent which is the China contemporary art scene. They are a few portraits of other asian contemporary artists certainly worth a catch.
- Last but not least, a short 11 min portrait of a Richard Serra Ellipse set in Italy.
THEATRE:
- There's an opportunity to compare Kabuki and Nô Japanese theatre with two documentaries.
- A film about Luigi Nono's piece "Intollerenza" which was an audacious affair.
CINEMA:
- "Cinema Dali" is about the films of this celebrated artist.
- Absolute best apprehended film of the festival: Aleksandre Sokourov presenting a portrait of his mentor, Andrei Tarkovsky. Two very rare cineasts that are as much artists as they are film directors. The film is titled "Élégie De Moscou".
- An intriguing post-mortem "Autobiography" film on François Truffaut.
- What does poetic realism means in 2005? Try revisit Marcel Carné with "La Caméra Vivante".
- Another good film must be the one on Antonioni ("Pictures And Times"). "Cinema in the 60's definitely is hard to beat.
- A rare film: the portrait of Perotinus Magnus, the medieval key composer of early polyphony ("Thy Kiss Of Divine Nature" is the title).
MUSIC (AND DANCE):
- In "Notes Interdites" is covered the whole avant-garde of 20th Century Russian music and how it deal within harsh political context.
- 3 hours of film on Mozart's "Genius".
- A profile on Arvo Pärt, neo-ancestral composer of excellence ("24 Préludes Pour Une Fugue").
- Not exactly music, but: don't miss this presentation of Noémie Lafrance's "Noir" site-situ choreography which was endorsed by the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
ART THEORY AND HISTORY:
- Should The antique "Elgin Marbles" of the British Museum return to Greece, in their original settings?
- A film about the problematic of identity "copyright", an issue I find of importance (contrarely to intellectual property which I find to be materialistic).
Title is "La Rue Zone Interdite".
- Germaine Greer is a theorist claiming that the archetypal representation of beauty is a "Boy" and not the usual perception that it must be a "Girl". She arguments this humoristically through the visit of many old museums.
- The life of collector Hilla Von Rebay and how she built the Guggenheim Museum collection.
- Should contemporary artist care about who owns their work and who shows them?
The issue might seem a little exaggerated but the question still holds in "Collection F. C. Flick"..
- There's a film about Piri Thomas, new york poet, writer and performer, in the Literature section.
Done.
I don't think I'm seeing all this, but they are my pre-selection
for the festival. Hope that helped in any ways.
I'm not going to start a long critique but it's when you look at certain sections, like the music section or the literature, that you realize the programmators are being annoyingly conservative. Like if anyone who likes Chadwick or Olafur Eliasson means that they are listening to Mozart and Beethoven. I'm shocked that money to organize these events pass in the hands of people who are not able to prove how they are passionate about what they do. They are a lot of spheres left uncover. This festival is way too tranquille. It is in great need of some ferocious, interdisciplinary, punch-knock curating. Enough of Michelangelo, will you??
Westmounts grandmas are better starting wearing spikes on their heads.
Cheers,
Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@homail.com
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