Crime

The National Gallery is collaborating with the London Film School on 'Transcriptions: LFS Shorts', an innovative new project which involves second term students producing short 3-4 minute films inspired by the Gallery’s collection as part of their course.

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From the film-maker:

 

I tried to use the green of the trees and the brown of the earth. The orange suit worn by the man on the left of the painting inspired the colour for the prisoner's suit in my film. The naked witches' pale skin gave me the idea for the torturers' white suits. The painting is a 'Dance Macabre', creating a feeling of confusion and desperation and the illusion of different sounds, coming from different directions. Phrases like 'War on terror' work as a magical spell in our society creating fear and sanctioning procedures to obtain control of it. The man with the hood on the left and the hanged man on the tree remind us of Iraq - remember the image of the tortured hooded man at Abu Ghraib? The orange suit of the man standing on the monster reminds me of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

 

 

Giacomo Cimini

A piece inspired by Salvator Rosa, Witches at their Incantations, about 1646

A Shot in the Dark
FlashA Shot in the Dark
Sohail Ahsan Kamali
White
FlashWhite
Nikolaj Hans Belzer
A Midnight Headache
FlashA Midnight Headache
Andrés Borda González
Scarf
FlashScarf
Gabriel Felsberg
Canton Bound
FlashCanton Bound
C. S. Schneider
F.A.Q.
FlashF.A.Q.
Giacomo Cimini
Last Call
FlashLast Call
Carl Christian Raabe
Primal Red
FlashPrimal Red
Theofano Pitsillidou
Vacuum
FlashVacuum
George Robinson
 
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