The silence of Rothko / a film by Marjoleine Boonstra ; director, script, photography, Marjoleine Boonstra ; Boonstra Foto & Film.

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]

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In The silence of Mark Rothko, we visit Rothko's studio at 22 Bowery in New York, and go to Florence's Museo di san Marco, where the monastic work of Renaissance painter Fra Angelico deeply influenced Rothko's mission to create environments and not just paintings. In The Hague, filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra introduces us to curator Franz Kaiser of the Gemeentemuseum, as his team installs the works for the first major Rothko exhibit to be held in Holland in 40 years. The film includes thoughtful, engaging commentary from experts including Rothko's biographer, Annie Cohen-Solal, and conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (who speculates on whether splotches of paint on the studio floor may have been Rothko's). Fittingly though, for a film about a painter whose greatest works evoke both silence and emotion, The silence of Mark Rothko lingers on paintings and locations--using architectural shots, interiors and streetscapes, to link Rothko's paintings to the world he inhabited.

Images / Online / Video & Film

English

October 30, 2018

Research, script, production, Lies Janssen ; editing, Menno Boerama ; music, Harry de Wit ; translations, Helen Reid, Erik Pezarro.

Annie Cohen-Solal, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro.

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