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BREAKING THE FRAME

By Marielle NITOSLAWSKA

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Documentary - Completed 2012

A portrait of artist Carolee Schneemann, recipient of the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. A pioneer of performance & body art & avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for 5 decades, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity.

Festivals
& Awards

Telluride FF 2012
Documentary
NYFF 2012
Views from the Avant Garde
BFI London FF 2012
Experimenta
Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2012
Cleveland International Film Festival 2013
Doc Competition
Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Documentary
WRO Biennale 2013
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    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marielle NITOSLAWSKA
    • Writer(s)
    • Marielle NITOSLAWSKA
    • Producer(s)
    • Marielle NITOSLAWSKA (Possible Movements)
    • Synopsis
    • Breaking The Frame is an enigmatic portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann, recently awarded the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity. Shot and utilizing a variety of formats (35/16/8mm, HD) over a period of six years, and utilizing a rich variety of film and hi-definition formats, Breaking The Frame can be described as a kinetic, hyper-cinematic intervention, a critical meditation on the relation of art to the physical, domestic and conceptual aspects of daily life and on the attributes of memory. It uses Schneemann’s autobiographical materials to narrate the historic upheaval within Western art in post-war America.

      The film captures Schneemann in her own words, images and reflections, at work, at home, in the studio, and interweaves extensive film excerpts from her groundbreaking film work in both super 8 and 16mm such as Fuses (1967); Kitch’s Last Meal (1973-76), with documentation of performances including Meat Joy (1964); Interior Scroll (1975) and more recent museum commissions and exhibitions. By highlighting the sheen of photographic prints, the fibers of diary pages and the gloss of wet paint, Breaking The Frame provides a textured mise-en-scene that resonates with Schneemann’s corporeal focus. The visual composition is complemented by a soundtrack featuring the music of composer James Tenney, Schneemann’s companion and collaborator for many years, and the two remained close friends until his death in 2006.

      Ultimately, the film presents the artist’s recollections and meditations on life/work in order to pose the questions what is space, where is form, and how do we look? By eschewing standard chronologies, Canadian filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska, one of the first women to graduate from the cinematography dept in Lodz, Poland explores the way filmic strategies complicate the traditional understanding of memory as an act of narration and investigates the complexities of the use of visual images as a form of historical testimony.

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