Gesamt (201?)
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 13:22:19 CDT 2012
Lars von Trier versus the People
Trier sets the rules, you create the material and the female director
Jenle Hallund puts it all together.
http://www.gesamt.org/uk/
This being Mr. von Trier, there are some specific conditions that
submissions must meet. In particular, they should take their
inspiration from one of six existing pieces: James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
(which, as the news release mentions, was “once was banned in the
United States because it was seen as obscene and lewd”); Strindberg’s
play “The Father,” (“a striking example of a dysfunctional family”);
Gauguin’s painting “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?”; improvisations by the French composer César Franck; the work
of Sammy Davis Jr. (“who stepped himself into the hearts of people
through song”); or “the somewhat more controversial monument the
Zeppelinfield in Nuremberg, created by Hitler’s main architect Albert
Speer.”
[...]
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/lars-von-trier-seeks-film-submissions-for-user-generated-project/
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