Two films on Munch
Two films will be screened at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery on Sunday in association with the exhibition of Edvard Munch’s work.
The first is a 172 minute long documentary by Peter Watkins that won acclaim at the recent Cannes and Australian film festivals.
The film is called “Edvard Munch” and looks at the forces that shaped the life and thinking of the artist. Watkins shows Munch as a child and adult in Christiania (now Oslo).
He looks at the poverty and ignorance beneath the city’s conservative surface, at the women the artist loved and the intellectuals he admired and the criticism he received from art critics. The film is to be shown once beginning at 10 a.m. Admission will be free. Also to be screened is a iy 2 minute video by a New Zealand film-maker, Michael Donovan, entitled “The Dance.” The film is based on Munch’s painting, “The Dance of Life” and a piece of music called “The Woman in Red” by The Fold.
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Press, 10 February 1988, Page 22
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