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Written and directed by the artists and released to coincide with their major international traveling retrospective beginning in 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the feature-length film The World of Gilbert & George is an extraordinary journey into the work of this lively and controversial duo. Appearing on DVD for the first time, it is not simply a profile but an artwork in its own right--an expression of the emotional extremes of modern existence, and a stark portrayal of the streets of London. Gilbert & George "decided that the film should contain, explore and express ALL of our thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreads, dreams, loves, nightmares, disasters, prophecies, memories and tears." We see the artists embedded in the bleak urban surrounds of 1980s London, evoking in their art the desires and tensions of its disillusioned youth alongside their own eccentricities. Church spires and city streets, youths and drunks, dancing and tea-drinking all take on an affecting symbolism when viewed from the unique perspective of Gilbert & George.
| Catalog Number: MC-723 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Documentary |
| Copyright: 2007 |
Length: 51 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 8 95244 00100 1 |
| Label: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc |
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Films In Compilation
World of Gilbert & George directed by
Gilbert & George
United Kingdom,
Art / Artist,
2007,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
01:09:00
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2007-07-24 Artforum
By Barry Schwabsky
Gilbert & George began as "living sculptures," confounding the seemingly self-evident distinction between artist and object. Even since their work took a primarily photographic form three decades ago, its central trope has remained their own emblematic presence. So one of the most striking aspects of "The Dirty Words Pictures," 1977, is how understated the presence of the artists' image is in comparison with the work that led up to and followed it--even on a quantitative level. In eighteen of the twenty-six works, each member of the partnership is present in just one out of the sixteen or twenty-five gridded panels of black-and-white imagery. Instead, the emphasis is on the world that surrounds them--the run-down, desperate world of punk-era London, with its broken windows and rubbish-strewn sidewalks, where strangled emotions are scrawled in the graffiti that runs across the top or bottom of each grid and provides its title, such as Bugger, Cunt, Fucked Up, or one that sounds like it should have been the tit le of a Sex Pistols song, Are You Angry or Are You Boring? The London depicted here is so richly multiracial that it's vaguely surprising not to find any racism expressed in the scrawls Gilbert & George recorded, but homophobia speaks its name loud and clear: This is a city in which Queer and Bent count as "dirty words." Amid all this the artists lurk as shadowy presences, looking pensive and troubled--they are not objects, as they had once presented themselves, but rather witnesses. |
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