Month: April 2017

Full Van Gogh Museum CTFP program

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In case you were wondering, here’s the complete Cracking the Frame Presents @ Van Gogh Museum program. The program will be screened twice, at 19:00 and 20:00, as part of the Museum’s evening program Vincent on Friday on the 28th of April.

Idem Paris
David Lynch – 7:48 min
Short documentary directed by David Lynch. The film is a wordless observation of the lithographic process at the legendary fine art printing studio Idem Paris.

Piranesi – Carceri D’Invenzione
Gregoire Dupond – 11:40 min
An animated voyage through Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) famous etchings of imaginary prisons, Le Carceri d’Invenzione.

A Kert 
Orosz Istvan – 6:10 min
A poetic and surreal animation by award-winning Hungarian film director, graphic artist and printmaker István Orosz.

Thumbelina
Lotte Reiniger – 10:15 min
A magical silhouette animation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale Thumbelina by the pioneering master of this technique, Lotte Reiniger.

Duo Concentrantes
Larry Jordan – 8:34 min
Animated collage film created by American experimental filmmaker Larry Jordan using cut-outs of Victorian engravings.

Electric Literature
Martha Colburn – 2 min
Artist Martha Colburn animates a sentence from Author Diana Wagman’s tale of a young woman’s first sexual relationship after a mastectomy.

Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha)
Chel White – 3:40 min
The ultimate Xerox fetish film! All of this film’s images were created solely by using the photographic capabilities of a photocopying machine.

Division
Johan Rijpma – 1:34 min
A piece of paper is ripped multiple times, creating a series of new patterns. Directed by Dutch visual artist and filmmaker Johan Rijpma.

 

 

CRACKING THE FRAME FILM PROGRAM AT VAN GOGH MUSEUM

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Idem Paris
I can finally announce that next Cracking the Frame Presents curated event will take place on 28 April at Van Gogh Museum!
The Museum invited Cracking the Frame to compile a short film program to be presented as part of their new thematic exhibition ‘Prints in Paris’. The program is a mix of experimental films, artist’s videos, documentaries and animations that pay tribute to the aesthetics of classic art prints or that are created utilising some of the techniques directly associated to printmaking (etching, collage, xerographic printing…). The selection includes recent and classic productions by international filmmakers and video artists such as David Lynch, Lotte Reiniger, Larry Jordan, Martha Colburn, Orosz Istvan, Chel White, Johan Rijpma and Gregoire Dupond.
The program will be screened twice in the evening of Friday 28 April, as part of the Museum monthly program ‘Vincent on Friday’ and it is kindly supported by Goethe Institute Amsterdam.
This presentation marks Cracking the Frame first collaboration with the prestigious Van Gogh Museum and I am thrilled to finally be able to present this program!

CRACKING THE FRAME – THE SPACE IN BETWEEN – MARINA ABRAMOVIC IN BRAZIL

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“A fascinating journey with one of the most unpredictable and mesmerising artists of our times.” – BFI London

Space in Between

THE SPACE IN BETWEEN – MARINA ABRAMOVIC IN BRAZIL
Marco Del Fiol & Gustavo Almeida|Brazil | 2016 | 86 min

“When you have faith, there is no pain” – Marina Abramović

Legendary performance artists Marina Abramović travels through Brazil at the peak of a deep personal crisis, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration. The route is comprised of confronting encounters with healers, sages and shamans, and intimate personal rituals and experiences in the Brazilian natural landscape. Through this plunge into the mysterious and the unknown Abramović experiences sacred rituals and attempts to explore the boundaries and limits between artistic process and spirituality.

In what plays out as a sort of spiritual thriller, the documentary follows Abramović through a profound introspective journey through painful memories and past experiences, while revealing the intimate creative process of one of the most important artists of our time.

THE SPACE IN BETWEEN is co-directed by Brazilian artist and filmmaker Marco Del Fiol. During the course of the past decade Del Fiol focused on capturing the work of some of the most important contemporary artists of our time, such as Olafur Eliasson, Isaac Julien and Rafael Franca.

“Gritty, raw, beautiful.” PBS – Top Ten Documentaries to watch at SXSW 2016
“Ruminative and filled with stunning widescreen landscapes, the film stands several aesthetic rungs above 2012 doc, The Artist Is Present.” – Austin Chronicle

The Dutch premiere will take place on Wednesday 26 April 19:30h at Rialto Amsterdam with an introduction by a special guest. Further screenings will take place in selected Dutch cinemas in May.

Cracking the Frame

A monthly program featuring an international selection of theatrically unreleased, critically acclaimed arts documentaries.
Cracking the Frame focuses on the creative intersection between art and film through thought-provoking cinematic portraits of the life and work of established contemporary artists, photographers, filmmakers and global thinkers.