Le Cirque de Calder
By Carlos Vilardebó (1961)
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Format: avi (divx) | Size: 229mb
Runtime: 19min
Language: English, French
Source: vhsrip
Alexander Calder’s fascination with the circus began in his mid-twenties, when he published illustrations in a New York journal of Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, for which he held a year’s pass. It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film - tiny wire performers, ingeniously articulated to walk tightropes, dance, lift weights and engage in acrobatics in the ring. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to see the circus in operation. It was, as critic James Johnson Sweeney noted, `a laboratory in which some of the most original features of his later work were to be developed.’ This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the gramophone in the background. The Circus is now housed at the Whitney Museum in New York. —The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art
Learn more:
- SFMOMA: Alexander Calder
- National Gallery of Art - Alexander Calder: Virtual Tour
- Calder Foundation
- Artcyclopedia: Alexander Calder
Yay for Grey Lodge! This place is the bomb! Hey moderator! Any luck on subtitles for the marker/resnais film? Keep me posted!
Comment by Ekrem Serdar — put March 17, 2006 @ 11:06 am
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Pingback by loreto martin » Blog Archive » Cirque Calder — put March 17, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Sorry but still no subtitles for Les Statues Meurent Aussi. I’ll make a note of it if/when found.
Comment by Dr Grey — put March 17, 2006 @ 10:03 pm
Is “The cirque de Calder” still available ? My torrent client is deseperatly quiet (no connections).
Thank you.
Comment by Animo — put June 13, 2006 @ 11:08 am
is it possible to get hold of the jean painleve Le grand cirque de calder, 1953/4. in any format?
Comment by Jane — put February 11, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
hey greylodge folk
please i cant find this anywhere!
reseed please!
Comment by blitzer barfeld — put July 3, 2007 @ 9:38 pm