Director: Jean-Jacques Lebel
Year: 2007
Country: France
Language(s): English | French
Length: 40 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E
Synopsis
The Venus of all epochs, all civilizations, and all categories in one film. Artist Jean-Jacques Lebel examines the art history of this mythological figure in his film "Les Avatars de Venus". They run by the viewer in a nearly 45-minute film. The one is dissolved into the other, the borders blur, and what remains memorable is a single, constantly changing goddess.
Lebel's interest in the figure of Venus stems from his work as a sculptor for the installation "Reliquaire pour un culte de Venus", which he has revisited again and again for the last ten years. It meanwhile consists of over 2,000 single parts: painting, collages, photographs, and texts. Summarized in twelve parts, the film shows which archetypes have emerged in the course of history, above and beyond the cultural and temporal borders.
Special Features
- Le Cow-boy Et l'Indien (Alain Fleischer, 1993, 58m mins)
- Monument A Felix Guattari (Francois Pain, 1994, 90 mins)
- Le Visiteur (Alain Fleischer, 1998, 45 mins)
- Day Nine (Jonas Mekas, 2007, 8 mins)
