The Ensorcery of James Ensor
Director Nora PHILIPPE, Arnaud DE MEZAMAT
Countries France, Belgium
Duration 60 min
Synopsis
The shadow of the painter James Ensor still haunts the pier of Ostende.This unclassifiable artist of the 19th and 20th centuries developed an avant-garde art where colours and patterns highlight the carnival of our world. The voice of Jean-Quentin Châtelain reading the painter’s texts, brimming with rage, humour and poetry, the musical soundtrack of Marie-Jeanne Séréro, the works themselves filmed in detail and the presence of Pierre Alechinsky are some of the original paths chosen by the diretors to conjure up this stupefying «Ensorcery». This sensitive film-portrait is as unclassifiable as his topic.
The shadow of the painter James Ensor still haunts the pier of Ostende.This unclassifiable artist of the 19th and 20th centuries developed an avant-garde art where colours and patterns highlight the carnival of our world. The voice of Jean-Quentin Châtelain reading the painter’s texts, brimming with rage, humour and poetry, the musical soundtrack of Marie-Jeanne Séréro, the works themselves filmed in detail and the presence of Pierre Alechinsky are some of the original paths chosen by the diretors to conjure up this stupefying «Ensorcery». This sensitive film-portrait is as unclassifiable as his topic.