Un chant d'amour

I forbindelse med Munchmuseets utstilling «Måneoppgang: Marlene Dumas & Edvard Munch» viser vi en filmserie kuratert av Marlene Dumas med filmene som har inspirert hennes kunst.

Marlene Dumas om Un chant d’amour:

Only 26 minutes long. The only film the writer Jean Genet ever made and then without dialogue, a silent film. It was banned for many years as homosexual pornography. I find it a very sensual film. In the prison the prisoners are locked up alone, so they engage in masturbatory acts. The guard looks through the hole. The beloved is absent. This is a film that shows how erotic smoking and smoke can be. To kiss by not kissing, but inhaling smoke.

Again the use of close-ups, mouths and faces … the body language of longing.

Something I often try to deal with in my work. See some of the facial expressions of my Venus, between pleasure and sorrow. Andy Warhol was a fan of this movie too.