lonely crowded mind, captain!

Kitchen Sink
(New Zealand, 1989), 14 minutes, 35 mm, b/w
by Alison Maclean

Alison Maclean
Born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, Alison Maclean spent much of her childhood in Canada, emigrating to New Zealand with her parents as a teenager. She is a graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, where she majored in film and sculpture. She now lives in New York, where directing music videos is one of her major activities.

Alison Maclean on Kitchen Sink
The story came to me in much the same way as events unfold for the woman in the film. I could see this hair sticking out of the plughole and on closer inspec-tion, the story began to emerge and to transform itself in quite a surprising way. It's a dark little fable about fear and desire - about a woman who re-fashions a monster into a man, and finds herself falling for her creation. In some sense I see it as a Pygmalion-type story, with the genders reversed.

Fonte: http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_13/section_4/artc2A.html

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Surrealismo foi um movimento artístico e literário surgido primariamente em Paris dos anos 20, inserido no contexto das vanguardas que viriam a definir o modernismo, reunindo artistas anteriormente ligados ao Dadaísmo e posteriormente expandido para outros países. Fortemente influenciado pelas teorias psicanalíticas de Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), o surrealismo enfatiza o papel do inconsciente na atividade criativa.

As características deste estilo: uma combinação do representativo, do abstrato, e do psicológico. Segundo os surrealistas, a arte deve se libertar das exigências da lógica e da razão e ir além da consciência quotidiana, expressando o inconsciente e os sonhos.
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Nome original: Un Chien Andalou
País: França
Duração: Cerca de 17 minutos
Ano de Lançamento: 1928
Cor: Preto e branco
Atores: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí