In Front of Guernica (Director's Cut)
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Overview
Painted by Picasso in 1937, Guernica is a universal icon against the war. In 2014, the artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi conceived a new film that tells the history of 20th century upon the painting. In 2023, years after Angela’s passing, Yervant accomplishes this task.
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Review
Director Yervant Gianikian reflects that this film began when he visited the Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre in 2014. He visited the museum for the screening of the film he worked on with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi (1942-2018), where he encountered Picasso’s Guernica. The profound impact of this painting prompted him and his partner to delve into old sources and documents on Spain. Drawing from their experience with found footage, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi used various documentary records from the past to depict the fear of violence that is always looming despite a long time has passed in this film. The imagery of Italian fascism and Nazism becomes interwoven with other war-related images, capturing the essence of Picasso’s masterpiece through moving visuals. As the auteur suggests, this film, built upon his previous works, is a political, artistic, and historical exploration of violence in the 20th century. (Sung MOON)
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Credit
- DirectorYervant GIANIKIAN, Angela Ricci LUCCHI
- ProducerLionel BAIER, Régine VIAL, Charles GILLIBERT
- ScreenplayYervant GIANIKIAN, Angela Ricci LUCCHI
- CinematographyYervant GIANIKIAN
- GafferYervant GIANIKIAN
- Production DesignYervant GIANIKIAN
- MusicLuis AGUDO
- EditorYervant GIANIKIAN, Luca PREVITALI
- SoundTommaso BARBARO
- CastANONYMOUS
Film Source
Yervant Gianikian⎜yervant.gianikian@gmail.com
Director
Yervant GIANIKIAN, Angela Ricci LUCCHI
Yervant Gianikian is one of the most prestigious experimental filmmakers alive, born in Meran, Italy, 1942, from Armenian background. He has worked jointly with Angela Ricci Lucchi. Angela Ricci Lucchi was born in Italy and died 2018. She studied painting with Oskar Kokoschka. They lived and worked in Milan and some of the works in collaboration are From the Pole to the Equator (1986), On the heights all is peace (1998), and Barbaric Land (2013), etc.
