NP but Defoe, Willem

[John Bailey]

Oops, forgot link:
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8948/first-look-willem-dafoe-and-charlotte-rampling-in-sculpt
Also a three minute excerpt here that feels like Lynch shooting a
concert by Neu!
https://vimeo.com/176865284

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 9:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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>
>> > 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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