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Picasso and Braque go to the movies [videorecording] / Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment present ; produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut ; directed and produced by Arne Glimcher.

Contributor(s): Scorsese, Martin | Greenhut, Robert | Glimcher, Arnold B | Close, Chuck, 1940- | Schnabel, Julian, 1951- | Fischl, Eric, 1948- | New Video Group | Arthouse Films | Curiously Bright Entertainment (Firm).
Series: Arthouse films (Series): 020.Publisher: New York, NY : Arthouse Films : Distributed by New Video, c2011Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p. ; 19 cm).ISBN: 1422993949 (DVD).Other title: Picasso & Braque go to the movies.Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 | Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 | Art and motion pictures | Aesthetic movement (Art) | Art, Modern -- 20th century | Cubism -- 20th century | Artists | Motion picturesDDC classification: 709.04
Production Credits: Cinematography by Petr Hlinomaz ; edited by Sabine Krayenbühl.
Narrator, Martin Scorsese ; interviewees, Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl.Summary: This film advances an interesting thesis: if the static visual arts affected early cinema's vocabulary, did moving pictures inspire Cubism's two towering giants, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque? Cinema and Cubism were born during the birth of modernity itself, and filmmaker Arne Glimcher argues that films, from the earliest days of Thomas Edison and the Lumière Brothers, were a crucial formative influence on Modern painting, particularly on Picasso and Braque. The movies' revolutionary portrayal of time, space, and motion was the engine behind the modernist revolution in fine art. Through interviews with art historians, practicing plastic and visual artists, poets, and filmmakers, it traces the effects of technological revolution--specifically the invention of aviation and the creation of cinema--and their interdependent influence on the art dubbed Modern.
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Originally produced as a documentary in 2008.

Special feature: over 80 minutes of short films, including the Gaumont short films, Slippery Jim (1910), Frankenstein (1910)

Cinematography by Petr Hlinomaz ; edited by Sabine Krayenbühl.

Narrator, Martin Scorsese ; interviewees, Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl.

This film advances an interesting thesis: if the static visual arts affected early cinema's vocabulary, did moving pictures inspire Cubism's two towering giants, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque? Cinema and Cubism were born during the birth of modernity itself, and filmmaker Arne Glimcher argues that films, from the earliest days of Thomas Edison and the Lumière Brothers, were a crucial formative influence on Modern painting, particularly on Picasso and Braque. The movies' revolutionary portrayal of time, space, and motion was the engine behind the modernist revolution in fine art. Through interviews with art historians, practicing plastic and visual artists, poets, and filmmakers, it traces the effects of technological revolution--specifically the invention of aviation and the creation of cinema--and their interdependent influence on the art dubbed Modern.

DVD; Dolby Digital stereo.; NTSC.