Dante, puppets, Baroque quotation
I’ve blogged before about Sandow Birk’s modernized graphic-novelesque version of Dante’s Inferno. Now (via if:book) I’ve just discovered that it’s become a movie — an animated movie, with the animation done by moving hand-drawn paper puppets around in front of a camera. If that sounds like a low-budget nightmare, just watch the trailer. I can’t wait to see it, if it ever reaches the theaters or comes to DVD.
That same if:book post also points to Sandow Birk’s web site, where you can view a gallery of his work, much of which riffs on various Baroque, 18th-, and 19th-century artists but transfers the poses and lighting to a violence-plagued L.A.: The Apprehension of Rodney King after Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith, a Caravaggio-inspired painting of a freeway collapse, a Hogarthian Rake’s Progress series. Suddenly I want to go back and read Mieke Bal’s Quoting Caravaggio.
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