Poustinia
Realizador Kristian Berg
Países United States
Duração 27 min
Sinopse
'Poustinia' is a documentary short about Gendron Jensen, a man passionately devoted to his artistic calling. He draws detailed, precise images of bones. Though bones traditionally represent aridity, sterility and death, Jensen sees them as 'emissaries - portals unto exaltation - bespeaking all of creation'. A onetime recluse, Jensen spent five years at a Benedictine monastery and 17 as a semi-hermit on a rented farm in northern Minnesota before leaving for a new life in the mountains of New Mexico. For more than 40 years the artist has obsessively transformed found relics into wakeful images of uncommon beauty. Called a 'forest eccentric', a technical virtuoso and a romantic visionary, Jensen conjures art from nature, and his meticulously rendered, often monumental graphite drawings demand us to look beyond the ordinary into a deeper, more spiritual realm.
'Poustinia' is a documentary short about Gendron Jensen, a man passionately devoted to his artistic calling. He draws detailed, precise images of bones. Though bones traditionally represent aridity, sterility and death, Jensen sees them as 'emissaries - portals unto exaltation - bespeaking all of creation'. A onetime recluse, Jensen spent five years at a Benedictine monastery and 17 as a semi-hermit on a rented farm in northern Minnesota before leaving for a new life in the mountains of New Mexico. For more than 40 years the artist has obsessively transformed found relics into wakeful images of uncommon beauty. Called a 'forest eccentric', a technical virtuoso and a romantic visionary, Jensen conjures art from nature, and his meticulously rendered, often monumental graphite drawings demand us to look beyond the ordinary into a deeper, more spiritual realm.