event Cinematheque: Art/History: Selected Documentary Shorts
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Sat Dec 5
7:30 pm
Cinematheque: Art/History: Selected Documentary Shorts at Vilas Hall
Showcasing French director Alain Resnais' tendency to struggle with the "auteur" label, this screening collects three short documentaries in which Resnais dives into, well, art and history. The first, 1950's "Guernica," surrounds Pablo Picasso's painting of the same title with other bursts off horrific imagery, recounting the 1937 Nazi bombing that killed 2,000 civilians in the Basque Country town. "Les Statues Meurent Aussi" questions the French colonial attitude toward African works of art, which treated them more like anthropological relics than artistic achievements. "Night And Fog" makes the most harrowing stop on this meditative tour, visiting the concentration camp Auschwitz 10 years after the end of World War II and digging into the lingering moral repercussions of the Holocaust.
Vilas Hall 821 University Ave., Madison, WI
Showcasing French director Alain Resnais' tendency to struggle with the "auteur" label, this screening collects three short documentaries in which Resnais dives into, well, art and history. The first, 1950's "Guernica," surrounds Pablo Picasso's painting of the same title with other bursts off horrific imagery, recounting the 1937 Nazi bombing that killed 2,000 civilians in the Basque Country town. "Les Statues Meurent Aussi" questions the French colonial attitude toward African works of art, which treated them more like anthropological relics than artistic achievements. "Night And Fog" makes the most harrowing stop on this meditative tour, visiting the concentration camp Auschwitz 10 years after the end of World War II and digging into the lingering moral repercussions of the Holocaust.
