Cinema Possibly Effecting Mindset on Graduate Residency
Random. Exhibiting images and details of the some of the DVDs of films that have served as inspiration during Graduate Artist Residency at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire UK.
Naturally, the list could be longer, but for the purposes of selection, one film from French, American, Polish and Italian cinema have been chosen as representatives of lasting impact on artistic influences, transferred from the silver-screen to contemporary painting.
Moj Nikifor (My Nikifor), 2004 co-written/directed by Krzysztof Krauze is a biographical film based on the folk naive artist Nikifor (1895-1968).
The Artist, 2011, written/directed by Michel Hazanavicius is a silent black-and-white romantic drama film set between 1927-1931.
Citizen Kane, 1941 co-written/produced/starring/directed by Orson Welles is a drama, examining the life and legacy of a fictional media magnate named Charles Foster Kane.
Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief), 1948, co-written/directed by Vittorio De Sica is an Italian post-World War II drama about a father and son searching for their stolen bicycle without which the father cannot work and bring about salvation to his young family.
Together, these selected films create a picture of a pre- post- world of utopia and dystopia, rise and fall, conflict and result. All films being in black-and-white reflect a tendency towards the nostalgic, seeking to revel in the past whilst not completely abandoning the future: only some of the principles, values and morals that the future (post 1968) has produced.
These texts give meaning to what once was and shall never be again.
