Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
“BFI Southbank, Blue Room, 27 May 2016.”
Synopsis
"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the ‘actual’ ‘Mona Lisa’ when I was about thirteen. Of course I had seen dozens of reproductions in books and postcards by then and the popular mythology of the enigmatic smile was already well engrained in my mind. My strongest impression, as I recall, was how small and unsurprising it was – a heavily protected cultural icon – no longer really a picture – and I was much more excited by the painting of the distant landscape than by the face. My own ‘version’ of ‘la Giaconda’ was never an homage, nor like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, an attack on its cultural power. Instead it came from a fascination with change and transformation – maybe also with arbitrary appropriation." Malcolm Le Grice
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- Director
- Stefano Miraglia
- Original Title
- Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Runtime
- 8m
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What is Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo about?
"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the ‘actual’ ‘Mona Lisa’ when I was about thirteen. Of course I had seen dozens of reproductions in books and postcards by then and the popular mythology of the enigmatic smile was already well engrained in my mind. My strongest impression, as I recall, was how small and unsurprising it was – a heavily protected cultural icon – no longer really a picture – and I was much more excited by the painting of the distant landscape than by the face. My own ‘version’ of ‘la Giaconda’ was never an homage, nor like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, an attack on its cultural power. Instead it came from a fascination with change and transformation – maybe also with arbitrary appropriation." Malcolm Le Grice
Who directed Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo?
Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo was directed by Stefano Miraglia.
Who stars in Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo?
The principal cast of Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo includes Malcolm Le Grice.
When was Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo released and how long is it?
Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo was released in 2016 with a total runtime of 8m.