The Art of Cinema: A Compilation

Matthew Barney, Shirin Neshat

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about the film

Throughout the 20th century many artists have dealt with cinema and its medium, the film, through different approaches. Some appropriated cinema by using already existing movies to create new ones, while others, like these artists, created movies with narration, cinematography, acting, and soundtracks. As more and more artists use cinema and films in their practice, this selection presents you with three works by the contemporary pioneers of this trend. Matthew Barney's De Lama Lamina combines the documentary footage of a gigantic float in a Carnival with three characters in an environmental science-fiction film. Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's Zarin reveals glimpses of the tragedy of a young woman forced into prostitution and her struggle with her sanity.
- Özkan Cangüven

De lama lamina / Of Mud, A Blade
2005, Brazil - USA, Colour, 35mm, 50’
Director: Matthew Barney, Screenplay: Matthew Barney, Cinematography: Peter Strietmann, Producer: Matthew Barney, Barbara Gladstone
Synopsis:
The record of a performance art collaboration between Matthew Barney and the musician Arto Lindsay, De Lama Lamina explores the thematic attributes of technology and nature as it follows the Carnival in Salvador.

Zarin
2005, USA, Colour, Digibeta, 20’, Persian
Director: Shirin Neshat, Screenplay: Shoja Azari, Cast: Orsolya Toth, Behrouz Vossoughi, Shahmoush Parsipour, Producer: Shahram Karimi
Synopsis:
Zarin is the story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium. Wracked by both guilt for her actions and a strong desire for salvation, her madness manifests itself in her perception of the world around her.

about the director

MATTHEW BARNEY
The New York Times has called Matthew Barney ‘the most important American artist of his generation’. He was born in San Francisco in 1967 and graduated from Yale. From his earliest works, Barney explored the transcendence of physical limitations in a multimedia art practice which includes feature length films, video installations, sculpture, photography and drawing. He’s renowned for his Cremaster Cycle, which screened at !f.

SHIRIN NESHAT
Shirin Neshat was born in Iran, moved to the United States in 1974. She currently lives and works in New York. She has held solo exhibitions in many of the world’s most famous museums and galleries, and been included in the most prestigious biennials. In her works, she uses the culture of her native Iran as inspiration, her recent films attempt to reconstruct a more universal approach to notions of identity, society, refuge, and utopia.

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February 15 Friday, 5:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

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