The Naples Frieze
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Naples Frieze - an argonautical journey with the camera through the work of Markus Raetz |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gaudenz Meili |
| script | Gaudenz Meili |
| production | Gaudenz Meili |
| music | Martin Derungs , Richard Merz |
| camera | Georges Ryser |
| cut | Franziska Wirz |
| synchronization | |
|
Erika Billeter and the Chamber Choir Zurich | |
The Naples frieze is the title of a documentary artist portrait - an argonautical journey with the camera through the work of Markus Raetz - directed by Gaudenz Meili . The film was produced in Switzerland in 1988 and attracted a great deal of attention, especially internationally in the cultural environment.
action
Markus Raetz , born in 1941, enjoys international esteem as a Swiss artist. His artistic means of expression prove him to be one of the most inventive and fruitful artists of our time.
One of Raetz's main works, the Naples frieze , forms the starting point for this film, which is not meant to be a conventional «artist portrait». The Naples frieze consists of a refined arrangement of typical picture elements that the Bernese artist Markus Raetz has developed in his previous artistic work. Hieroglyphs and metaphors can be read individually or in flow.
Raetz poses a riddle to the viewer of the frieze that is basically not at all. It cannot be solved in every conceivable individual way. The film tries to penetrate the frieze with the camera in order to solve the riddle from within. From the individual point of view of the film author, the film follows the work of Markus Raetz associatively. Pictures and drawings follow one another in constant motion.
Not restricted by any art-historical structuring ambition, the film succumbs to an almost logical, but not temporally-historically bound flow of images, only to return again and again to the frieze, to step out of it again, and then to dive into it anew. The main stages of Raetz's work thus appear in a never-ending river.
criticism
« Grand Prix Pratt & Whitney Canada. Au court métrage: La Frize de Naples (The Naples Frieze) de Gaudenz Meili / Suisse pour la qualité du rapport entre l'œuvre de l'artiste Markus Raetz et l'œuvre du cinéaste, sans que ce dernier ne se substitue au premier. "
"The images are accompanied by a musical and vocal soundtrack based on names and linguistic terms created by Raetz."
"In the recent past, portraits by visual artists who counter the course of the supposedly incomprehensible world with their post-modern works have been popular, such as [...] The Naples Frieze by Gaudenz Meili."
“This film is fun, entertaining and educational; a school of sight. It is a congenial combination of two art forms. Precisely because Meili is placing his film entirely at the service of another artist, he succeeds in creating a work of art himself. "
Awards
- Grand Prix in all categories; Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Montréal 1989
- Goldenes Einhorn for Der Neapelfries as best experimental film at the Alpinale , Bludenz, 1989
- Diploma & Mention Spéciale for The Naples Frieze at the Festival international du film sur l'art FIFART, Lausanne, 1989
Web links
- The Naples frieze on the website of Gaudenz Meili
- Website of SIKART Swiss Institute for Art Research
- Film approval on the Italian art blog daringtodo
- The Naples frieze in the Swiss Federal Archives
- The Naples frieze in swissbib
- The Naples frieze in Martin Derungs' list of legacies in the music department of the Zurich Central Library, 2013 (PDF; 724 kB)
- Media library of the Technical University of Berlin
- as La Frize de Naples in the magazine Cinémathèque Suisse No. 262/2011, p. 45
- as Frieze of Naples in the New York Times movie database
- The Naples Fries at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Naples Frieze. In: Gaudenz Meili's website
- ^ La Suisse remporte le Grand Prix du Festival du film sur l'art. In: La Presse. March 13, 1989, p. B5 ( Memento of February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.1)
- ^ Sound & Images in Films on Art: A Conference on Music and Sound in Films about the Visual Arts In: Program for Art on Film . University of Southern California. School of Cinema-Television, 1991, p. 54
- ^ Outsiders, oppositionists and troublemakers in Swiss film. In: Artfilm.ch. 1992
- ^ The Naples frieze by Carola Fischer In: Film and the arts . Cinemabuch, 2019
- ↑ Frieze of Naples takes grand prize at art film festival. In: Cinema Canada. March / April 1989, p. 49 (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Festival prices. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Cinébulletin, April 1989, p. 4. (PDF; 7.8 MB)
- ^ Lyne Crevier: Le festival des géants. ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: ETC. No. 8, Montréal 1989, pp. 70–71 (PDF; 448 kB)
- ↑ Der Fischer Weltalmanach, 1990, p. 1989
- ↑ Der Fischer Weltalmanach, 1991, p. 2124
- ↑ The winners of the 5th ALPINALE Short Film Festival. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .