Archive of films Lucebert, Time and Farewell / Lucebert, tijd en afscheid
Netherlands
1994, 52 min
Section:
Johan van der Keuken
Year: 2002
In their naive, yet highly charged expression, Lucebert’s drawings seemingly dictate the equally robust shape of Van der Keuken’s film, including its individuality. The gestures of this unusual painter set the expressive tempo of the director’s collage, brimming with colours, shapes and analogies.
Synopsis
This portrait of the artist and poet Lucebert, the author of unseemly, almost child-like drawings, is in fact constructed from three films: black-and-white collages from 1962, a colour film from 1966 and an epilogue which was made in 1994 after the artist’s death. These drawings, naive and rudimentary in their expression but also highly charged, seemingly exacted an equally robust form on Van der Keuken’s film and its many details. The robust gestures of this distinctive painter dictate the expressive tempo of the director’s collage, which overflows with colour, shapes and analogies. The artist’s work developed alongside children, and the film’s soundtrack often contains the sound of children’s games, perhaps the echo of the painter’s longed-for innocence. It is not until the very end that the walk through the studio, with its numerous contrapuntal colour-spray images, slows down its pace and lets in the light.... We see a hand which appears to seek shared relief in Lucebert’s works.
About the film
Black & white, 16 mm
Section: | Johan van der Keuken |
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Director: | Johan van der Keuken |
Screenplay: | Johan van der Keuken |
Dir. of Photography: | Johan van der Keuken |
Music: | Willem Breuker, Ton Bruynel |
Editor: | Johan van der Keuken |
Producer: | Pieter van Huystee |
Production: | Pieter van Huystee Productions |