NP but Defoe, Willem

[David Morris]

Where is the trailer?  Residents? Voodoo?  Sounds like my bag!

On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Soundtrack by The Residents too (who scored A Journey into the Mind of
> P). I would totally watch this. The trailer doesn't entirely sell me
> but the artist has worked with David Lynch and had a voodoo priestess
> curse some of the 16mm film rolls before shooting on them.
> "I wanted to produce an object that had lost its centre – an object
> that would be constantly peripheral, where the film itself wouldn't be
> the key element but part of a bigger whole ...It had to be a story
> that could turn around you just like you turn around a sculpture."
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Sounds to me like a film so incoherent, so bad, that even the renowned
> > artist KNEW IT, so a divide and conquer viewing strategy was set up, so
> all
> > that these discrete viewers would end up saying is " so mysterious" " I
> > can't describe it" that the mystique of it as SO ORIGINAL would grow and
> > grow into the aforementioned void.
> >
> > ---Mark, not in WV today and who can't follow any of the Plist movie/Tv
> > series posts but who saw what he figured was a masterpiece in a crowded
> > auditorium called IDA and who asked two questions into the void during
> the
> > discussion session afterwards. And felt so alone with this masterpiece he
> > was glad everyone else loved it too anyway.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > A note passed to me earlier today. Anyone know anything about it?
> >
> >> Sculpt is a film created by the renown French artist, Loris Greaud.
> >> Starring Willem Defoe and Charlotte Rampling, the film exists in a
> >> multiplicity of versions that run from 70-120 minutes, but its most
> unique
> >> feature is that it was conceived to be viewed by an audience of ONE,
> >> creating a singular one-to-one viewing experience. Shocking, disturbing
> >> and
> >> decidedly nonlinear, a screening leaves the viewer wondering exactly
> what
> >> he or she has seen, and with no other audience member with which one can
> >> make a comparison or share a critique, this void can only be filled with
> >> one’s imagination.
> >>
> >> Sculpt was premiered at the LACMA in Los Angeles on August 16, 2016 and
> >> received several screenings a day, each time before an audience of one,
> >> until the master file eventually vanished.
> >> Various versions of the film are currently being distributed worldwide
> via
> >> the Dark Web.
> >
> >
> >
> > I prefer that my Charlotte Rampling movies were filmed around 1970, I'm
> > afraid
> >
> > Allan in WV, where some of us still pine for Susan George
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