The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
- Original title
- Le Mystère Picasso
- Directed by
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 55 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary shows Pablo Picasso creating drawings and paintings in real time. The film focuses on the process of making art as the works develop and change on screen.
observationalintimatecreativeplayfuldeliberatefocusedinventive
What happens
The Mystery of Picasso (French: Le mystère Picasso) is a 1956 French documentary film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. In it, the painter Pablo Picasso produces 20 drawings and paintings, at first using inks that bleed through the paper on which he is drawing, with the act of creation filmed in real-time from the backside of the easel, and later using oil paints, with Clouzot employing a stop-motion-like effect to depict the development and modification of the works. The film begins with Picasso creating simple marker drawings in black and white, and he gradually progresses to full-scale collages and oil paintings. The pieces created before the camera were supposedly subsequently destroyed so they would only exist on film, but there are reports that some survived. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Picasso: A Painter's Diary (1980)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.