Gustav Deutsch: SHIRLEY - VISIONS OF REALITY - Gustav Deutsch & Hanna Schimek in person at Anthology Archive! July 12 at 8:30 PM July 13 at 6:00 PM July 14 at 7:30 PM Film Notes A key figure in contemporary Austrian avant-garde cinema, Gustav Deutsch has established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of experimental found-footage filmmaking. In such acclaimed works as the feature-length WORLD MIRROR CINEMA (2005) and his multi-part FILM IST. series (1998-2009), Deutsch has mined the world’s film archives to create visually and rhythmically masterful collages showcasing the astounding beauty and mind-boggling range of moving images created since the advent of the cinema. Deutsch has worked almost exclusively in this mode since 1990, but with his new project, SHIRLEY, his preoccupation with ‘found’ material and his fascination with the history and phenomenology of image-making takes a distinctly new form. A quasi-narrative film inspired by Edward Hopper, it tells the story of a young woman’s experiences in mid-century America by means of a succession of precise, painstaking reconstructions of particular Hopper paintings, created by means of specially fabricated sets and props. The result is a unique work, uncannily poised on the brink between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, that draws a link between multiple forms of popular visual art: painting, cinema, and the pre-cinematographic forms that historically bridged both mediums. On the occasion of Deutsch’s one-month residency at the Deutsches Haus at NYU, we present the North American premiere of SHIRLEY, alongside screenings of WORLD MIRROR CINEMA and the final installment in the FILM IST. series, ‘a girl & a gun’. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE! GUSTAV DEUTSCH AND HANNA SCHIMEK IN PERSON! SHIRLEY – VISIONS OF REALITY 2013, 93 min, digital video. Key Scenic Artist & Head Painter: Hanna Schimek. “As the starting point for this film, which has at its heart the staging of reality and the dialogue of painting and film, I selected Edward Hopper’s picturesque oeuvre, which on the one hand was influenced by film noir – in his choice of lighting, subject and framing as seen in paintings such as ‘Night Windows’ (1938), ‘Office at Night’ (1940), and ‘Room in New York’ (1932), and his direct references to cinema such as in ‘New York Movie’ (1939) and ‘Intermission’ (1963) – and on the other hand influenced filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wenders. Based on my conviction that history is made up of personal stories and influenced by my reading of John Dos Passos’s ‘USA trilogy’ of novels, in which the life stories and destinies of a few are representative of the wider public and social and cultural history of America, I have chosen an actress as the film’s protagonist – Shirley – through whose reflective and contemplative inner monologues we experience America from the beginning of the 1930s through to the mid-1960s.” –G.D. GUSTAV DEUTSCH AND HANNA SCHIMEK WILL BE HERE IN PERSON FOR Q&As FOLLOWING THE SCREENINGS ON SATURDAY & SUNDAY; DEUTSCH WILL ALSO BE HERE TO INTRODUCE MONDAYS SHOW. hollywoodreporter/review/shirley-visions-reality-berlin-review-420118
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