THE NAMES OF CHRIST
Els noms de Crist
Spain | 2010 | 193 min | col.
A fourteen-part series made for the Barcelona museum of contemporary art based on the play with the same title that Fray Luis de Leon wrote in 1586 while the Inquisition was in full swing. In as many chapters as were the stations of Christ’s martyrdom, the series deals with the difficulties in financing a so-called “artist’s film” and related themes, such as the relationship of artist and client, the way the audience dwells in the museum spaces, and the relationship between exhibition and exhibit. Putting himself at stake – and on stage – Albert Serra conducts a pungent satire on the art world and an ironic, layered reflection on filmmaking in which dialogues between several figures alternate with film clips of the late Hollywood Golden Age (Cecil B. DeMille, Raoul Walsh, King Vidor), theology, satire, poetic research, and reflection on form. An open form that says a lot on the cultivated, iconoclastic spirit of the Catalan filmmaker and on his faith in the freedom of the creative act. (a.s.)
Free admission subject to availability
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2024
- Time: 10:00
Location
- Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza degli Strozzi 50123 Firenze FI
Organizer
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Albert Serra
Albert Serra was born in 1975 in Banyoles, Spain. HE’s PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat de Barcelona. In 2006, Serra wrote, directed and produced his debut feature Honour of the Knights, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2006. Since then, all his films have premiered at Cannes except Story of My Death, that won the Golden Leopard in Locarno in 2013. His major filmography includes Birdsong (2009), Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011), The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Prix Jean Vigo winner) and Liberté (2019, Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard in Cannes). He created the 101 hours film Three Little Pigs for Documenta in 2013. He has also shown Singularity (2015) at the Venice Viennale of Art. In 2022, he directed Pacifiction, premiered at the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes Film Festival. He received the Louis Delluc Prize and two César Prizes for this film. He has given lectures at numerous museums, universities and cultural centers, and many retrospectives of his work have been held around the world.
