I thought ‘Les Pasayges’, an animation film by Jerónimo Rocha, would be the perfect summer post seeing as everyone I know is either on holiday, planning on going on holiday or has just been on holiday. It tells the story of a group of friends who head off on holiday in a caravan of vintage vehicles. The destination? Rocha’s office. It’s light, well made and just the thing for summer.
I’ve also included the ‘making of’ video if you’re interested.
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Here we get to watch the wonderful Wassily Kandinsky – one of the 20th Centurys most influential painters, a pinoeer of abstract art – painting in an early film clip. Continue reading »
The film was made in 1926 by Hans Cürlis, one of the earliest art documentary filmmakers, at the Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf in Berlin. At that time Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus, the same year he published his second major treatise, On Point and Line to Plane. The work in this film is typical of Kandinskys method of contrasting straight lines and curves. It was an method of abstraction that Kandinsky believed could lead an artist to deeper truths by dispensing with the depiction of external objects and by looking within.
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Alain Delorme has shot this series of beautiful photographs called ‘Totems’. And yes they are photographs. Look closely. The work focusses on the material excess of globalized societies, inspired by that ubiquitous figure – the man on the bike carrying, balancing, an impossible amount of objects.
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