Re: Query: art in film (multiple responses)

Darryl Wiggers <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:08:35 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.culture.studies.media
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Marcia Blackburn [[email protected]] 
	
The "Crows" dream in Kurosawa's DREAMS. Ward's WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, of course.

Marcia Blackburn
Art, Communications, and History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences Departments
SUNY Broome
Binghamton, NY 13902

------------------

From: Ami Clarke [[email protected]] 

hi - the following is an extensive look at what you are asking for but on tv, by artists Sally O'Reilly and Colin Perry.

Do I Really Look Like That?
A montage of misrepresentations of art and artists on television (not film). Researched and edited by Colin Perry and Sally O'Reilly

https://vimeo.com/27085972

www.amiclarke.com
www.bannerrepeater.org

------------------

From: Nicholas Loess [[email protected]] 

The query is a bit misleading, but I think I get where you're going. Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts incorporates the work of Vermeer not only into film's narrative component, but also its structural, incorporating impressionist ideals of symmetry and balance into the framing, background/foreground, and depth of field. I haven't seen it, but Greenaway's 2007 film "Nightwatching" is about the life of Rembrandt. Might be worth a look as well. definitely an intriguing film worthy of exploring the question of "art" in film. 

------------------

From: Jeffrey Masko [[email protected]] 

*Borom Sarret *by Ousmane Sembène comes immediately to mind. It uses
African folk art to comment on colonization, especially cultural
imperialism.

------------------

From: David Langston [[email protected]] 

Peter Greenaway films:
  The Draughtsman's Contract
  The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
  Prospero's Books
  The Pillow Book

Greenaway has an expansive view of art (includes texts), but art is not
simply decorative.  The closing scene in The Cook uses food as art (the
corpse of the dead paramour) as the final touch.  I have not seen the 
Belly of an Architect in so long, I can't remember if that film also
follows 
PG's themes, but you might give it a try.

------------------

From: Konkle, Amanda S [[email protected]] 

Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It uses modern art. 

Amanda


------------------

From: Eubanks, Ivan S [[email protected]] 
	
See Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, if you haven't already.

Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D.
Curriculum Coordinator
CAS Writing Program
Boston University

Editor, The Pushkin Review / Пушкинский вестник
http://www.pushkiniana.org

------------------

From: "Lubelski, Lance Ray" <[email protected]>

Hi, 

The Royal Tenenbaums 

Art School Confidential 

New York Stories 


All best, 
Lance Lubelski 
Univ. of Illinois 
 --