{"id":165,"date":"2010-11-04T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portlandgreenfilm.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:02:24","slug":"small-gestures-in-bare-rooms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGFilm\/small-gestures-in-bare-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Gestures in Bare\u00a0Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

is a co-production between Centre Pompidou and Portland Green Cultural Projects.<\/p>\n

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<\/spacer>above: Lucian Freud
SMALL GESTURES IN BARE ROOMS
2010
Tim Meara
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Small Gestures in Bare Rooms<\/em> is artist\/filmmaker Tim Meara\u2019s staged recreation of the inner world of the artist Lucian Freud, who died in July 2011, two years after filming.\u00a0 The film, a co-production between Portland Green Cultural Projects and Centre Pompidou, and commissioned for a retrospective of Freud\u2019s work at the museum in 2010, features the artist in a rare screen appearance, his first since granting an interview for the BBC in 1988.<\/p>\n

A small group of Freud\u2019s inner circle appears alongside the artist in the film, in what Meara calls filmed \u201csilent portraits\u201d.\u00a0 These include Freud\u2019s daughter Bella, his long-standing assistant David Dawson, and the writer Francis Wyndham, who also contributes a reflective voice-over narration.\u00a0 Meara films with deliberation Lucian Freud in his studio and along the canals of London\u2019s Little Venice, close to the artist\u2019s home.\u00a0 The film revolves around two staged performances, choreographed by Rafael Bonachela for dancer Amy Hollingsworth, fluently translating the artist\u2019s measured mystique of his public persona.<\/p>\n

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(courtesy of Jochen Braun and the film maker)
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