The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting The Suspended Vocation Raul Ruiz, director

Contributor(s):

Ruiz, Raul

Material type: Film

FilmSeries: Blaq Out CollectionPublication details: Chicago, Ill; Facets Video 2006ISBN:

1565805658

Subject(s):

Summary: A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries and conspiracies surrounding the paintings.

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3 Day Loan	LSAD Library DVD collection	DVD 1069A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100676353

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Follows an art collector and an off-camera narrator as they attempt to reconstruct a stolen painting from a series of seven, with the aid of actors and their own keen powers of perception. Also includes Ruiz's first film, The Suspended Vocation.

Film originally produced for the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), France 1978.

Black + White; fullscreen, 63 mins.

French with English or Spanish subtitles.

Special Features:
Includes additional bonus full length feature film "The Suspended Vocation".
Interview with Raul Ruiz (Director) by Jerome Prieur.

A bumbling art collector attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100 years earlier by an eccentric artist. To help him in his task, a group of actors pose as the figures in the paintings to create a series of human tableaux. The collector makes far-fetched thematic connections between the tableaux as a way to figure out what the missing artwork might look like while alluding to the scandals, mysteries and conspiracies surrounding the paintings.