This summer, in collaboration with the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, The Robert Wilson Estate & Trust, and The Watermill Center, Anthology presents an extensive film series celebrating the work of Robert Wilson.
As part of that series, the following original works for the screen by Robert Wilson will be shown:
STATIONS (1982, 56 min, video)
“STATIONS is an enigmatic, hauntingly vivid work, in which Wilson envisions the daydreams and fantasies of an eleven-year-old boy as a universe both magical and sinister. Resonating with Wilson’s precise visual stylization, the tape’s pivotal image is a young boy looking through a large window in the kitchen of his home, which becomes the portal for his dramatic, often startling inner fantasies. Fire, metal, wind, glass and water, among other elements, serve as points of departure for a series of elegant pictorial compositions and evocative metaphors. Unfolding without dialogue or spoken language, Wilson’s indelible visions articulate the fear and mystery of the internal life of a child, and his relation to the outside world.” –ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX
LA FEMME À LA CAFETIÈRE (1989, 7 min, video)
Robert Wilson and the dancer Suzushi Hanayagi bring to life Paul Cezanne’s painting, “La Femme à la Cafetière”.
LA MORT DE MOLIÈRE (1995, 24 min, video)
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagining his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. “Cinema watches Death at work.” Wilson’s actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller’s comment: “The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière.”