In conjunction with the ASF exhibition MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image, Scandinavia House presents a small survey of films about Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, delving in to the iconoclast’s life, multifaceted artistic concerns, and discursive influence – in art and film – through the ages. Munch and the Moving Image will be running from May 1 through the 17th, Wednesdays at 7 PM and Fridays at 6:30 PM.
Program from the press release:
Dead Madonna/Død Madonna
with
Quest for Madonna/ Jakten på Madonna
May 1 & 3
Dead Madonna/Død Madonna
preceding Quest for Madonna/ Jakten på Madonna
Directed by Ingeranna Krohn-Nydal and Evald Otterstad (Norway, 2005). A documentary about Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska, Norwegian writer and erstwhile model for Edvard Munch, and the Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski.
50 min.
Quest for Madonna/Jakten på Madonna
following Dead Madonna/Død Madonna
Directed by Erling Borgen (England, Japan, Norway, U.S., 2003). In 1999 Edvard Munch’s painting Madonna was unsuccessfully put up for auction at Christie’s by an anonymous seller, starting at $15 million. Afterwards the painting mysteriously disappeared from the international art scene. No one knows where it is. This documentary goes in search of the missing Madonna.
55 min.
Faces/Ansikter
with
Dance of Life/Livets dans
May 8 & 10
Faces/Ansikter
preceding Dance of Life/Livets dans
Directed by Anja Breien (Norway, 1971). A short documentary about faces – expressions and situations. The film is based on Edvard Munch’s portraits, accompanied by a poem by the Danish poet Paul Borum.
8 min.
Dance of Life/Livets dans
following Faces/Ansikter
Directed by Sølvi A. Lindseth (Norway, 1997). Following Edvard Munch’s footsteps from childhood to old age, Dance of Life attempts to capture the artist’s diversity and dilemmas, to find connections between the events of his childhood and youth, his art and his adult life.
52 min.
Edvard Munch
May 15 & 17
Directed by Peter Watkins (Norway, 1974). A biographical drama about the famous painter with in-depth studies of the influence of persons and surroundings that made his paintings. Only amateurs play the different roles in the film, according to the director’s philosophy of authenticity.
174 min.