Bulletin
678
Subject: A Film: Peter
Brueghel the Elder, the artist as social critic.
10 January 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and
Friends of CEIMSA,
So many people responded positively to ‘the delightful
street art’ pieces that I sent to you as an early New Year’s gift that I am
taking the liberty to send you another post-New Year gift, an Internet link to
the wonderful film by Polish artist Lech Majewski,
“The Mill and the Cross” (2011).
If you have an hour-and-a-half to spare, this film is based
on the painting by Peter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569) - "The Way to
Calvary".
Among other things, it is an essentially visual portrait
(with very little dialogue) that offers an illustration of how the state
apparatuses stand prepared to defend the ideological hegemony of the status
quo, and how the corporate state counts on the collusion of the
general population, and the techniques that are available to assure that
this mass collaboration is maintained.
The time of this film is the 16th Century; the
place is Spanish occupied Flanders. The film focuses on a dozen of the 500
characters depicted in Brueghel’s painting. It consists of a series of
vignettes depicting everyday peasant life, interspersed with monologues from
some of the principal characters, including Bruegel
explaining the structure and symbolism of his painting. The theme of Christ's
suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
http://putlocker.ms/watch-the-mill-and-the-cross-online-free-putlocker-2011.html
(Une
attente d'une minute pour
télécharger ce film de 1h30/A
one minute wait to download
this 1h30 movie)
Je vous souhaite une
expérience visuelle cinématique très intéressante.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American
Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego