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'''''Glass Lips''''' is a feature film with almost no words, directed by [[Lech Majewski]].
'''''Glass Lips''''' is a feature film with almost no words, directed by [[Lech Majewski]].


The film began life as an installation of interrelated short films, entitled ''Blood of a Poet'' (alluding to [[Jean Cocteau]]’s surreal film ''[[The Blood of a Poet]]''). The installation had its world premiere at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]] on May 3, 2006,<ref>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503222949/http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/LechMajewski.html |date=May 3, 2006 |title=Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image }}</ref><ref>[http://www.mcnblogs.com/reeler/archives/2006/05/moma_retrospective_celebrates_nyc_transplant_majewski.html The Reeler: MoMA Retrospective Celebrates NYC Transplant Majewski<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> curated by Laurence Kardish. Its Polish debut was at the [[:pl:Galeria Atlas Sztuki|Atlas Sztuki Gallery]] in [[Łódź]] from 2006-05-19 to 2006-06-18 (Polish-language name “Krew poety”).,<ref>[http://www.artbiznes.pl/jsp/artbiznes/wystawy.jsp;jsessionid=04E677ED5E90D3C7DA981B790319DFB3?Typ=detal&Id=1&IdWystawy=6668 artbiznes.pl - Wystawy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.lechmajewski.art.pl/recenzje.php?id=114 Lech Majewski<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.fm.lebork.pl/news.php?id=876 Fakty Młodych<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=29209 Krew poety. Lech Majewski w nowojorskim Muzeum of Modern Art - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The installation also was exhibited at the [[Wrocław]] Opera House from 2006-07-20 to 2006-07-30 during the [[Era New Horizons Film Festival]]; and, in the same year, in Gallery [[2Πr]], [[Poznań]], and National Museum, [[Szczecin]]. It was described there as:
The film began life as an installation of interrelated short films, entitled ''Blood of a Poet'' (alluding to [[Jean Cocteau]]’s surreal film ''[[The Blood of a Poet]]''). The installation had its world premiere at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]] on May 3, 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/LechMajewski.html |title=Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image |accessdate=2007-02-15 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503222949/http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/LechMajewski.html |archivedate=May 3, 2006 |df= }}</ref><ref>[http://www.mcnblogs.com/reeler/archives/2006/05/moma_retrospective_celebrates_nyc_transplant_majewski.html The Reeler: MoMA Retrospective Celebrates NYC Transplant Majewski<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017172353/http://www.mcnblogs.com/reeler/archives/2006/05/moma_retrospective_celebrates_nyc_transplant_majewski.html |date=2006-10-17 }}</ref> curated by Laurence Kardish. Its Polish debut was at the [[:pl:Galeria Atlas Sztuki|Atlas Sztuki Gallery]] in [[Łódź]] from 2006-05-19 to 2006-06-18 (Polish-language name “Krew poety”).,<ref>[http://www.artbiznes.pl/jsp/artbiznes/wystawy.jsp;jsessionid=04E677ED5E90D3C7DA981B790319DFB3?Typ=detal&Id=1&IdWystawy=6668 artbiznes.pl - Wystawy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.lechmajewski.art.pl/recenzje.php?id=114 Lech Majewski<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.fm.lebork.pl/news.php?id=876 Fakty Młodych<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=29209 Krew poety. Lech Majewski w nowojorskim Muzeum of Modern Art - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The installation also was exhibited at the [[Wrocław]] Opera House from 2006-07-20 to 2006-07-30 during the [[Era New Horizons Film Festival]]; and, in the same year, in Gallery [[2Πr]], [[Poznań]], and National Museum, [[Szczecin]]. It was described there as:


:a video art screened on eight walls, the remaining works will be shown in loops on 24 screens. Entering this labyrinth, every viewer walks from one stage to another and builds his or her private story out of ready elements.<ref>[http://www.wroclaw.pl/m6863/p51647.aspx Era New Horizons<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
:a video art screened on eight walls, the remaining works will be shown in loops on 24 screens. Entering this labyrinth, every viewer walks from one stage to another and builds his or her private story out of ready elements.<ref>[http://www.wroclaw.pl/m6863/p51647.aspx Era New Horizons<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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On June 6, 2007, [[Blood of a Poet]] installation became a part of the 52nd [[Venice Biennale]]. For almost six month, until November 21, it was shown in two locations: as the non-stop outside projection on [[Campo San Pantalon]], and on 19 screens inside the [[Teatro Junghans]] on [[Giudecca]].
On June 6, 2007, [[Blood of a Poet]] installation became a part of the 52nd [[Venice Biennale]]. For almost six month, until November 21, it was shown in two locations: as the non-stop outside projection on [[Campo San Pantalon]], and on 19 screens inside the [[Teatro Junghans]] on [[Giudecca]].


The short films of the video installation ''Blood of a Poet'' were assembled into a single feature film entitled ''Glass Lips'', premiering in that form in February 2007 in [[Vancouver]].,<ref>[http://www.internationalfilmcircuit.com/majewski/index.html International Film Circuit, Inc. | distributor of fine films<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/Jan_Feb_07/majewski.htm#blood Lech Majewski - Conjuring the Moving Image<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www2.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=35905 Lech Majewski na Berlinale i w Vancouver - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The short films of the video installation ''Blood of a Poet'' were assembled into a single feature film entitled ''Glass Lips'', premiering in that form in February 2007 in [[Vancouver]].,<ref>[http://www.internationalfilmcircuit.com/majewski/index.html International Film Circuit, Inc. | distributor of fine films<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/Jan_Feb_07/majewski.htm#blood Lech Majewski - Conjuring the Moving Image<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927064825/http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/Jan_Feb_07/majewski.htm |date=2007-09-27 }}</ref><ref>[http://www2.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=35905 Lech Majewski na Berlinale i w Vancouver - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


In Poland the film in its feature-length format is known as ''Szklane usta'' and premieres on 2007-03-23.,<ref>[http://szklane.usta.filmweb.pl/Szklane+usta+2006+opisy,FilmDescriptions,id=385497 Szklane usta- opisy - FILMWEB.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.kinoinfo.pl/?id_f=1356 KINO INFO - serwis kinowy EXPERT-MONITOR<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>http://www.nauka.gildia.pl/_vp_filmy/szklane_usta_krew_poety</ref>
In Poland the film in its feature-length format is known as ''Szklane usta'' and premieres on 2007-03-23.,<ref>[http://szklane.usta.filmweb.pl/Szklane+usta+2006+opisy,FilmDescriptions,id=385497 Szklane usta- opisy - FILMWEB.pl<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.kinoinfo.pl/?id_f=1356 KINO INFO - serwis kinowy EXPERT-MONITOR<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>http://www.nauka.gildia.pl/_vp_filmy/szklane_usta_krew_poety</ref>

Revision as of 08:04, 18 October 2017

Glass Lips
Directed byLech Majewski
Written byLech Majewski
Produced byLech Majewski
Angelus Silesius
StarringPatryk Czajka
Grzegorz Przybył
Joanna Litwin
Ryszarda Celinska
Dorota Lis
CinematographyLech Majewski
Edited byEliot Ems
Norbert Rudzik
Music byLech Majewski
Jozef Skrzek
Distributed byOpus Film
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesPoland
United States

Glass Lips is a feature film with almost no words, directed by Lech Majewski.

The film began life as an installation of interrelated short films, entitled Blood of a Poet (alluding to Jean Cocteau’s surreal film The Blood of a Poet). The installation had its world premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on May 3, 2006,[1][2] curated by Laurence Kardish. Its Polish debut was at the Atlas Sztuki Gallery in Łódź from 2006-05-19 to 2006-06-18 (Polish-language name “Krew poety”).,[3][4][5][6] The installation also was exhibited at the Wrocław Opera House from 2006-07-20 to 2006-07-30 during the Era New Horizons Film Festival; and, in the same year, in Gallery 2Πr, Poznań, and National Museum, Szczecin. It was described there as:

a video art screened on eight walls, the remaining works will be shown in loops on 24 screens. Entering this labyrinth, every viewer walks from one stage to another and builds his or her private story out of ready elements.[7]

Blood of a Poet was further exhibited as a video installation from 2007-02-08 to 2007-02-18 in Berlin, during Berlinale. There it was described as “a circuit of 33 short films and a series of interrelated photographic works”.[8]

On June 6, 2007, Blood of a Poet installation became a part of the 52nd Venice Biennale. For almost six month, until November 21, it was shown in two locations: as the non-stop outside projection on Campo San Pantalon, and on 19 screens inside the Teatro Junghans on Giudecca.

The short films of the video installation Blood of a Poet were assembled into a single feature film entitled Glass Lips, premiering in that form in February 2007 in Vancouver.,[9][10][11]

In Poland the film in its feature-length format is known as Szklane usta and premieres on 2007-03-23.,[12][13][14]

Glass Lips played also in Boulder, Colorado at the University of Colorado International Film Series in March/April 2007, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,[15][16] and Locarno Film Festival in August 2007; The Art Institute of Chicago showed it in September 2007; the UCLA Film Archive in October, and in November it was presented by SIFF Seattle; Portland Art Museum; Cleveland’s Wexner Arts Center; and Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive.

On November 7, 2007, Glass Lips opened in New York City. The New York Times critic, Jeannette Catsoulis, wrote: “Lech Majewski creates an aesthetic of dysfunction that’s as beautiful as it is disturbing. After a while the film’s expressiveness becomes so hypnotic that it’s difficult not to make your own connections.” Joe Leydon of Variety wrote: “Glass Lips exerts a chilly fascination from minute to minute… Experimental pic by noted Polish-born artist-filmmaker is a harshly beautiful, dialogue-free meditation on the indelible influence of childhood trauma.” New York Post film critic, V. A. Musetto, gave the film three and a half stars (out of four) and wrote: “The hypnotic, painterly images of Glass Lips combine with haunting music in one of the most unusual, beautiful films of the year.”

The film stars Patryk Czajka as Sebastian, Joanna Litwin as Sebastian’s mother, and Grzegorz Przybył as Sebastian’s father. As the film begins, Sebastian is in a mental asylum; he recalls events from his life beginning with his birth. Many of the sequences of the film are surrealistic. None of the actors speak any words, but the electronic voice of an answering machine gives the date at one point, and there is a voice-over song that gets repeated.

The film includes some shocking images, such as a woman who gives birth to a large bloody rock, and a man eating dog food.

In addition to directing, Majewski is credited as the writer, producer, and cinematographer.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ "Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image". Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ The Reeler: MoMA Retrospective Celebrates NYC Transplant Majewski Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ artbiznes.pl - Wystawy
  4. ^ Lech Majewski
  5. ^ Fakty Młodych
  6. ^ Krew poety. Lech Majewski w nowojorskim Muzeum of Modern Art - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl
  7. ^ Era New Horizons
  8. ^ Żak | Gallery
  9. ^ International Film Circuit, Inc. | distributor of fine films
  10. ^ Lech Majewski - Conjuring the Moving Image Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Lech Majewski na Berlinale i w Vancouver - WYDARZENIA w Stopklatka.pl
  12. ^ Szklane usta- opisy - FILMWEB.pl
  13. ^ KINO INFO - serwis kinowy EXPERT-MONITOR
  14. ^ http://www.nauka.gildia.pl/_vp_filmy/szklane_usta_krew_poety
  15. ^ International Film Circuit, Inc. | distributor of fine films
  16. ^ International Film Series - "Glass Lips"
  17. ^ http://www.lechmajewski.com/html/blood_of_a_poet.html

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