Film Festival 09 - Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the
Tangerine
USA 2008, 99m
Directors: Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach
Artist Louise Bourgeois, born Christmas Day 1911 and still going
strong, is best known for her 'Cells' installed in many of the
world's great galleries, her giant public spiders and a prodigious
body of potently mythic sculpture. For six decades she has been at
the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own
inventive and disquieting terms. This highly stimulating portrait
is built around a series of interviews conducted between 1993 and
2007. - BG. "This atmospheric portrait of Bourgeois bypasses the
dryness of most art documentaries& fueled by the uncanny sight
of an artist revisiting her ideas from over forty years ago with
vivid clarity. The film's three sections are titled after
Bourgeois's sculptural installation I Do, I Undo, I Redo,
1999-2000, and explore several of her major themes, including
memory, trauma, and identity& The most scintillating bons mots
are offered by the doyenne herself, and there are enough here to
fill up a pocket-size inspirational book." - Lauren O'Neill-Butler,
Artforum
