“The best camera as painbrush film in the history of cinema”
– Stan Brakhage
“First there is a lightning of language whereby the meaning is conveyed through the verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied constancy”.
– ‘Lightness’, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino.
CÉZANNE'S EYE is an experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cézanne's Provence. Using intuitive and expressionist visual language and a striking specially composed soundtrack the film is a movement through land, sky, colour, sound and music that is both sensual and visually challenging.
“The explicit reference point in Maziere's Cézanne films is an acknowledgement of that post-impressionist project, namely the relativisation of vision, of significance as embedded in language and convention. Consequently the artist is left with the perpetual task and hope of working and reworking, discovering anew in every brush stroke or camera movement. Art's potential lies within that persistence. Shot in Cézanne's France, the film's agile camerawork edits the terrain into panoramic views which zooms in to become geological contours, dwelling on the geometric solidity of the rocks and trees. The camera constantly works with the landscape, bringing it in and out of view at different scales, in a frantic syntax which is never exhausted since each shot or movement suggests other possibilities. It is well known how the late Cézanne would persist with his motifs, mountains and rotting fruit alike , in a constant erotic of interpretation.”
– The Erotic of Interpretation, Sotyris Kyriacou.
Soundtrack by Stuart Jones.
3 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
16mm |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
magnetic sound |
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rental fee |
90,00 € |
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distribution format |
Digital file on server (FHD) |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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rental fee |
90,00 € |
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distribution format |
DCP on server (INTEROP 2K) |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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rental fee |
90,00 € |
