Yves Klein, The Blue Revolution ( Yves Klein, La Révolution Bleue ) ( Yves Klein - The Blue Revolution )

Yves Klein, The Blue Revolution (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Yves Klein, La Révolution Bleue
Alternate Title: Yves Klein - The Blue Revolution
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
52 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
François Lévy-Kuentz

Written By:
François Lévy-Kuentz

Actors:
Yves Klein
Georges Bigot

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Film contains French audio with French subtitles & English audio only***French artist Yves Klein had a love affair with the color blue. As we see in the outdoor screening of the documentary Yves Klein, la révolution bleue, he was so intensely passionate about it, he invented his own shade, International Klein Blue (known as IKB). It was a glowing radiance somewhere between lapis lazuli and ultramarine. He devoted entire works of art to this wondrously luminous hue and even doused naked models in it and had them roll or be dragged across his canvases. Director Francois Levy-Kuentz's film uses previously unreleased archival material, such as Klein's personal films, to capture the artist's astonishing career, from its beginning in 1954 to his death in 1962. In those eight short years, Klein turned the modern art world upside down. Besides inventing IKB, he was at the forefront of monochrome paintings, was early to photo manipulation (his most famous, Le Saut dans le Vide, has him flying from a wall, diving into the street below) and created haunting sculptures from the torsos of his friends (blue, of course). He also once exhibited an entirely empty gallery space - and museumgoers lined up to get in. As this audacious artist said at the time, "Recently, my work with color has led me to search for the realization of matter, and I have decided to end the battle. My paintings are now invisible."

The most recent do cumentary film about Yves Klein analyses his unique oeuvre and describes the life adventure of the great French painter and avantgarde artist that was interwoven with art. The film is the documentation of a epic life and functions as the continuation of a thought translated into action. It is intended to communicate the essence of Yves Klein's visionary work; those aspects that revolutionised the art history of modernism and it refutes the myths that reduce him to the occultist of the colour blue. Above all the film, using re-enacted scenes, archive images and brilliant colour shots, draws a picture of a utopian who served art in order in order to realize his dreams and ideas.

The inventor of the monochrome and the happening, Yves Klein (1928-1962) is a true prodigy. His career lasted only eight years but he managed nonetheless to shake the foundations of modern art. Although his name might only evoke the celebrated IKB (International Klein Blue) and monochrome canvases, his work extends well beyond the realm of painting. Francois Levy Kuentz won the prize for the best portrait at the 25th FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal) for the film, as well as the Etoile SCAM 2008 award.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 22 March, 2013.