I have visited the Venice Biennale every couple of years for a while now, and am going again in Aug (really excited - in this dismal world situation). I prefer not to engage in the usual culture-vulture activities (maximising stay - reading reviews) and just stroll in the sun by myself and happen on stuff. I like my own take on it. It's nice to have a surprise. In 2011 I was pretty obsessed only with film https://youtu.be/j-Vne_Pvqv0
Tony Conrad stole the show though. He painted a series of film frames on paper in 1973. The idea being that (like photo emulsion) the image would be affected by light. It would just take longer. They appear at the end of the clip at this point https://youtu.be/j-Vne_Pvqv0?t=582. Painting sometimes doesn’t let you down.
Some non-painted films I have seen often. My father was born on Groundhog Day (Feb 2), and after he passed away in 2000 my wife and I watch that film on that day every year as ritual - alternating it with the Italian version (with spaghetti and red) to mitigate boredom. Other regulars are The Time Machine (1961 - not the new one - eek!), The Wizard of Oz and the amazing Turkish ersatz Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde, The Singing Ringing Tree, Decasia… and so it goes.
Film as film, film as painting, painting as film, film as time, time as film. What have I missed? We’re not there yet.
Stork Day https://mubi.com/films/stork-day
Little Ayşe and the Magic Dwarfs in the Land of Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnApKUztuyo
Decasia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDa-mmSldDg
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