Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections
Derek May, Canada, 1991, 53 min 2 s
This full-length documentary examines the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist who has taken his art out of museums to project it onto the sides of buildings. The film explores Wodiczko’s philosophy of art as social contract and shows examples of his provocative work, which has lit up walls from London’s Trafalgar Square to Zion Square in Jerusalem.
Series 4
Normand Grégoire, Canada, 1972, 7 min 29 s
This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between man and his mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing color, achieving bold and provocative effects.
Syrinx
Ryan Larkin, Canada, 1965, 3 min
Musique de Claude Debussy
Nymphe d’Arcadie, Syrinx se jeta dans le Ladon pour échapper à Pan qui la poursuivait. Elle fut aussitôt changée en roseaux avec lesquels le dieu aux cornes et aux pieds de chèvre fabriqua la flûte champêtre à sept tuyaux appelée syrinx ou flûte de Pan. Il se mit ensuite à jouer de façon si harmonieuse que toute la terre fît silence pour l’écouter.
Night Mayor
Guy Maddin, Canada, 2009, 13 min 53 s
Guy Maddin’s latest film is the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who harnesses the power of the aurora borealis in 1939 Winnipeg. Ademi uses the power to broadcast images of Canada to its own citizens from coast to coast, but in the process angers the government.
The Pendulum, The Pit And Hope (Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje)
Jan Švankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1983, 15 min
Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum
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Autres films de Jan Švankmajer publiés précédemment : The Ossuary (1970) ici et The Fall of the House of Usher (1982) ici.
