Alice in Wonderland 61
January 5th, 2012
Friday January 6 – 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
2010, 99 minutes, video.
An adaptation of the 1886 musical “Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children”, by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter, Fotopoulos’s feature-length film propels the Clark/Slaughter score into the 21st century digital age, using sculptures, drawings, text, and original music to explore the late-19th century’s evolution of painting, literature, and theater into early photography and moving pictures.
“At the center of the proceedings is a medium close-up of a very beautiful young woman who appears in two guises. Although her face almost never changes its expression, it seems very much alive, thanks to the talent of the actress and Fotopoulos’s filmmaking. One fully believes that the drawings (most of them charcoal-shaded outlines on a coral ground), which cross-fade seemingly in front of her face and behind her head, are projected from her psyche.” –Amy Taubin, ARTFORUM
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