Léon Spilliaert, master of his own dark univers. I missed the recent exhibition in Brussels, shame on me indeed. But this RTBF documentary tells his story.
The voice-over is weird at first, but there’s just very little video and photomaterial left of Spilliaert, so the makers gave it a bit of an angle, by directing themselves to the artist and by quoting his letters.
Love the part that says: “His face marked by inner tension.”
If anything, Spilliaerts silences are highly uncomforting. Utter brilliance if you ask me.
Thanks for sharing this video on youtube !
This documentary does justice to this painter Léon Spilliaert by the way they choose the narrator’s voice, the movement of a beam reminding of the lighthouse on the paintings slide, and above all the excellent psychological profiling of the artist’s life.
I like a lot the passage at 9:26 ;)
FANTASTIC ! i would love to see the rest someday …