Louise Bourgeois [DVD] : the spider, the mistress and the tangerine / The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation presents ; a film by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: Z1117 | Zeitgeist FilmsLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Publication details: New York, NY : The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation : Distributed by Zeitgeist Films, c2009.Description: 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

Spider, the mistress and the tangerine

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Genre/Form:

Feature films -- United States.

DDC classification:

DVD 56A

Contents:

Necessary aggression -- Runaway girl -- Red rooms -- Taking care of the wounded -- Growing relevance -- Seamstress -- Mistress -- Re-creation of the family constellation -- Spider -- Tangerine -- I do I undo I redo -- End credits/"Otte".

Production credits:

Editor, Ken Kobland ; animations, Kipjaz Savoie ; researcher, Sheila Maniar.

Louise Bourgeois; interviewer, Amei Wallach.Summary: As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has been at work for six decades, but always on her own inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman honored with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In her 80s and 90s she created her most powerful and persuasive works - massive spider sculptures that have appeared all over the world. Georges Braque once wrote that the only thing that matters in art is the thing you cannot explain. From this perspective, the oft-times terrifying original work of Louise Bourgeois, and the artist herself, are revealed and concealed by this film. Assembled from a wide selection of sources, including interviews from the '90s, vintage footage from Bourgeois' lengthy career, and brief interviews with Bourgeois intimates and admirers, everything and everyone circles the difficulty of Bourgeois' dreamlike sculptures. The artist, prickly and intense, offers recollections of her girlhood along with a first-person tour of her sculptures, creating a privileged look into a psyche rendered solid.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
3 Day Loan	LSAD Library DVD collection	DVD 56A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Damaged		39002100421750

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Born in 1911, sculptor Louise Bourgeois has been a major figure in contemporary American art since the early '60s, having earned an international reputation for her abstract pieces that embrace the appetites of human sexuality and the emotional dynamics of youth in a rich variety of ways. Filmmakers Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach offer an intriguing look at Bourgeois, her art, and her working methods in the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine. Active and alert in her mid-nineties, Bourgeois discusses how her life history impacts her work, her relationship with her family, the techniques she uses to create her sculptures, and how the emotional outlet of her art has helped her survive. The New York premiere of Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine was scheduled to coincide with the opening of a major retrospective of Bourgeois' work at the city's Guggenheim Museum; it was the last film from co-director Marion Cajori, who died in the summer of 2006 before it was completed. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Originally produced as an American documentary in 2008.

Special features: Interview with co-director Amei Wallach (4 min.); Interview with cinematographer/editor Ken Kobland (5 min.); Additional footage (45 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Editor, Ken Kobland ; animations, Kipjaz Savoie ; researcher, Sheila Maniar.

Louise Bourgeois; interviewer, Amei Wallach.

As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has been at work for six decades, but always on her own inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman honored with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In her 80s and 90s she created her most powerful and persuasive works - massive spider sculptures that have appeared all over the world. Georges Braque once wrote that the only thing that matters in art is the thing you cannot explain. From this perspective, the oft-times terrifying original work of Louise Bourgeois, and the artist herself, are revealed and concealed by this film. Assembled from a wide selection of sources, including interviews from the '90s, vintage footage from Bourgeois' lengthy career, and brief interviews with Bourgeois intimates and admirers, everything and everyone circles the difficulty of Bourgeois' dreamlike sculptures. The artist, prickly and intense, offers recollections of her girlhood along with a first-person tour of her sculptures, creating a privileged look into a psyche rendered solid.

MPAA Rating: Not rated.

DVD ; PAL Region 2: 16:9 anamorphic widescreen presentation enhanced for widescreen televisions, 1.78:1 original aspect ratio.

In English with optional English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).