A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.
"A partire dal Dolce brings together "portraits-interventions" of a dozen or so thinkers, artists, friends of Gianfranco Baruchello (including extremely rare footage of Jean-François Lyotard), who comment on the concept of the "dolce" (gentle/soft/sweet)" Claudine Eizykman, Les Rendez-vous du...
The almost impassive recording of a common jacket hanging on a balcony slowly slides into the analysis of the mechanisms of perception, where the lines between reality and illusion are revealed somewhat labile.
An allegory on man's inhumanity. Pink dolls are sandwiched into bread rolls in a long sequence then stuffed in a sack and thrown in the sea by two children. A naked, drowned negro is washed ashore and discovered by a naked white child. The soundtrack is of Vietnamese children's songs.
In one of the three films Gianfranco Baruchello made in 1968 in response to the war in Vietnam, the artist carefully washes hundreds of coins in a bathtub, and then proceeds to cook and serve them at table.
