Fantasy
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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 was first drawn to the striking and ambiguous nature of the imagery. The figures in the painting appear static and posed. In the exterior section of my film, the main character makes stylised poses within static frames. The third to last shot echoes the painting directly. The painting depicts the myth of the decline of man from enlightenment and purity to self-destruction. It is about the base instincts in all of us and my film is a humorous take on this theme and our guilty participation.
David Welch
A piece inspired by Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Close of the Silver Age (?) , about 1530
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN