Film

Baroque Statues

1974 · 16m · Animation

In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasingly improvised dance. A successful act of liberation from (Catholic) convention, which the material celebrates in an acstasy of multiple exposures and psychedelic colors.

• Maria LassnigDirector

Release date

January 1, 1974

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

16m

Genres

Animation