{"id":14553,"date":"2021-10-23T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:29:40","slug":"vogel-expressionist-surrealist-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14553","title":{"rendered":"Vogel Expressionist & Surrealist shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to the Expressionism chapter in the Vogel. Our Lady of the Turks<\/a><\/em> was a bust, and I had Viva La Muerte<\/em> lined up but it sounds depressing, so I’m turning to shorts: three from Expressionism then three from Surrealism.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Reality of Karel Appel<\/em> (1962, Jan Vrijman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artist looks like he is fencing with the painting, and the camera. Short doc portraits of artists aren’t usually the most creative, so I was surprised to see that Vogel picked a few. This is really good, with a jazz montage of Appel cruising a junkyard, and crashing sfx as he attacks a canvas. Appel contributed his own music.<\/p>\n

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\nVisual Training<\/em> (1969, Frans Zwartjes)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stonefaced blackeyed man eats his jam and toast in a bowl, then smears his breakfast all over a nude woman on the table. There’s lots of posing, and looking into the camera. Sounds like a Kurt Kren actionist short, but unlike Kren’s<\/a>, this one is actually good. No audio, I played the opening track to Zorn’s Heaven & Earth Magick<\/em>. Zwartjes made about thirty more films, and if they’re available somewhere I’d consider a marathon.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Liberation of Mannique Mechanique<\/em> (1967, Steven Arnold)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another short with heavily made-up topless women, this time with less posing, the actors and camera in constant movement. Good use is made of feathers and a glass table, multiple takes of the same scene are strung together. Some pretty-whatever music, I should’ve kept playing Zorn. Debut short of Arnold, a Dal\u00c3\u00ad associate.<\/p>\n

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\nMagritte: The Object Lesson<\/em> (1960, Luc de Heusch)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cutouts of the paintings fade into each other. I barely know Magritte’s name but I know some of these images – “This Is Not a Pipe” and the hatted man facing away from us. He painted more birds than I realized. Vogel: “one of the few films to deal with the philosophical basis of contemporary art,” true enough. De Heusch worked with Storck, and previous to this he made a film about eating, which would’ve also fit into this program.<\/p>\n

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\nEaten Horizons<\/em> (1950, Wilhelm Freddie & Jorgen Roos)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weirdo little short with abrupt picture and sound editing, fetishizing loaves of bread. A woman is opened up so her insides can be eaten, a loaf is cut and bleeds goopy guts. Freddie provides the art-world weirdness here, Roos (who’d just made a Cocteau doc) the cinema experience.<\/p>\n

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\nThe World of Paul Delvaux<\/em> (1946, Henri Storck)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forming a trilogy of short docs about painters. I didn’t dig the music or the dramatic poetry reading, but it’s cool to zoom in and around the paintings, lingering on background details. This one’s all paintings – unlike the other two, the artist doesn’t appear in person. Vogel: “Storck’s outstanding work extends from early radical documentaries to later surrealist films.” He also worked with Ivens, and his other stuff looks interesting; political.<\/p>\n

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Up to the Expressionism chapter in the Vogel. Our Lady of the Turks was a bust, and I had Viva La Muerte lined up but it sounds depressing, so I’m turning to shorts: three from Expressionism then three from Surrealism. – The Reality of Karel Appel (1962, Jan Vrijman) The artist looks like he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[527,302,21,660,2852],"class_list":["post-14553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-expressionism","tag-painting","tag-shorts","tag-surrealism","tag-vogel-subversives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14577,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions\/14577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}