Synopsis
The oeuvre of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), bold and daring, marks an essential stage in the history of painting. Constantly searching for human truth through his treatment of light and space, Velázquez was a documentarist ahead of his time.
The film sets out to discover the singularity of the "painter of painters" and allows us to assess the artistic and esthetic revolution that Diego Velázquez triggered.
From the Rokeby Venus to the mirror of Las Meninas, the film avoids any didacticism and endeavors to recreate the exceptional emotional bond between Velázquez's oeuvre and the public, between the painter's eye and that of the spectator. Between his life and ours.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Poissons Volants
- Co-productions : ARTE France, Rmn - Grand Palais
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Sophie Goupil
- Screenwriters : Yves Nilly, Karim Aïnouz
- Director of Photography : Ali Gözkaya
- Music Composer : Burak Özdemir
- Assistant director : Katia Herrmann
- Editor : Elke Hartmann
- Executive Producer : Nawal Tahiri
- Assistant Operator : Laurent Hannoun
- Production manager : Yaël Vidan
- Sound Editor : Simon Apostolou
- Sound Mixer : Stéphane Larrat
- Narrator : Arthur H.
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait
- Themes : Art, Painting
- Production language : French, English, German
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 52 min
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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