About

The Australian Cinémathèque presents an extensive program of films exploring Pablo Picasso's relationship to cinema, including important films and documentaries capturing the artist's working methods and films exploring the themes and historical events that shaped his life and practice. The program also features documentaries and films relating to the artists whose work Picasso collected and prominent figures from his circle of friends. Highlights include Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) 1955 by Henri-Georges Clouzot. For this extraordinary document of the artist's working method, Picasso created 20 original works ranging from sketches filmed in real time to oil paintings filmed using stop-motion animation. The film has been declared a national treasure by the French government. The program also features Jean Cocteau's acclaimed 'Orphic Trilogy' and Salvador Dalì's remarkable collaborations with director Luis Buñuel.

Picasso & his collection' film program presented with the generous support of the French Embassy in Australia and the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (Paris). Program curated by Jose Da Silva with film notes compiled with the assistance of Stewart Browne and Aurélie Dacher D'Agata.

List of Works

• PICASSO ON FILM
• Bezoek aan Picasso aka Visite à Picasso (Visit with Picasso) 1949 | Director: Paul Haesaerts
• La vie Commence Demain (Life Begins Tomorrow) 1950 | Director: Nicole Védrès
• Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) 1955 | Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Picasso Portraits 1996 | Director: Claude Vajda
• Surviving Picasso 1996 | Director: James Ivory
• 13 Journées dans la vie de Pablo Picasso (13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso) 1999 | Directors: Pierre-André Boutang, Pierre Daix, Pierre Philippe
• Picasso: Magic Sex Death 2001 | Director: Waldermar Januszczak
• PARIS EXPRESS
• Paris 1900 1948 | Director: Nicole Védrès
• Paris la Belle (Paris the Beautiful) 1959 | Directors: Pierre Prévert, Marcel Duhamel
• THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• Terre sans Pain aka Las Hurdes (Land without Bread) 1932—36 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• The Spanish Earth 1936 | Director: Joris Ivens
• Guernica 1950 | Directors: Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens
• AGAINST WAR AND NATIONALISM
• La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) 1936 | Director: Jean Renoir
• Hôtel des Invalides 1951 | Director: Georges Franju
• JEAN COCTEAU AND THE ORPHIC TRILOGY
• Le sang d'un poète (The Blood of a Poet) 1930 | Director: Jean Cocteau
• Orphée (Orpheus) 1949 | Director: Jean Cocteau
• La villa Santo-Sospir 1952 | Director: Jean Cocteau
• Le Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! (The Testament of Orpheus) 1960 | Director: Jean Cocteau
• Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un Inconnu (Jean Cocteau : Self-Portrait of an Unknown Man) 1983 | Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky
• REVISITING PRIMITIVISM
• Les Statues Meurent Aussi (Statues Also Die) 1953 | Directors: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
• Cracks in the Mask 1997 | Director: Frances Calvert
• PICASSO ET LE THÉÂTRE
• The Story of a Marriage 1994 | Director: Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
• Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat) 1994 | Director: Yvon Gerault
• Le Train Bleu (The Blue Train) 1994 | Director: Jean Cocteau
• Ballets Russes 2005 | Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
• Paul CÉZANNE
• Cézanne: Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet (Cézanne: Dialogue with Joachim Gasquet) 1989 | Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
• Une visite au Louvre (A Visit to the Louvre) 2004 | Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
• Salvador DALÍ
• Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) 1929 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• L'Âge d'or (Age of Gold) 1930 | Director: Luis Buñuel
• Max ERNST
• Maximiliana - Die Wiederrechtliche Ausubûng Der Astronomie (Maximiliana: The Illegal Practice of Astronomy) 1966 | Director: Peter Schamoni
• Max Ernst: Mein Vagabundieren - Meine Unruhe (Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious) 1991 | Director: Max Ernst, Peter Schamoni
• Paul GAUGUIN
• Van Gogh 1948 | Director: Alain Resnais
• Gauguin 1950 | Director: Alain Resnais
• Alberto GIACOMETTI
• A Man Among Men: Alberto Giacometti 1963 | Director: Michel Van Zele
• What Is a Head? 2000 | Director: Jean-Marie Drot
• Amedeo MODIGLIANI
• Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) 1958 | Director: Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls
• GERTRUDE STEIN
• Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me 1971 | Director: Perry Miller Adato