Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies

The documentary comes in the wake of the exhibition “Picasso, Braque and early Film in Cubism”, which was cureted at New York’s PaceWilderstein Gallery by the famous American art critic Arne Glimcher. Shot by Glimcher himself and co-produced with Martin Scorsese, the documentary continues investigations on the fundamental role that cinema had on the work of the two Cubists masters at the beginning of the 19th century. It is an extraordinarily vivacious fresco of the magical relationship between visual arts and cinema, and using both flash backs and contemporary sequences it masterly alternates excerpts from old silent movies with pioneering works by Georges Méliès, rare documentaries of serpentine dancer Loie Fuller and with comments by famous contemporary artists and movie stars. Among these are Scorsese himself, who appears in the Socratic role of narrator, the artist and film maker Julian Schnabel, Lucas Samaras and Chuck Close.