イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル 2018

Asparagus　Suzan PITT / 35mm (16mm version) / 18min. / 1979 / USA music: Richard TEITELBAUM, KOSUGI Takehisa, et al.A work that depicts the mysterious, magical time of a woman (reminiscent of the filmmaker herself). A completely red living room filled with oddly sized fixtures and furniture. She selects a mask from those in a closet with various costumes and leaves for the theater. Thus begins a visually dazzling scene. The woman strokes a brightly colored stalk of asparagus, bends down, and puts it into her mouth. It transforms into a waterfall, pieces of metal, jelly beans, and stardust. A legendary work that was first exhibited as an installation at the Whitney Museum in 1979, it was then screened for two years along with David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

Jefferson Circus Songs　Suzan PITT / 16mm / 16min. / 1973 / USAA woman on a train speeding through the darkness. A strange world rolls past outside the window. A mysterious ritual or festival is being staged by exotically dressed boys and girls, their movements odd although filmed as live action. Sleeping conjoined twins. A girl dressed in white giving medicine to a doll made of spoons. A Cheshire cat, surrounded by roses, licks its lips as it watches the children from above. A bird dressed like a person and the live-action children enjoy a feast. Is this inside the children’s dreams? At the end the woman on the train appears again. Is she Suzan Pitt herself taking a journey? Is she travelling to her own childhood?

Joy Street　Suzan PTT / 35mm / 24min. / 1995 / USA music: Jazz Passengers, Debbie HARRYAn old apartment in a big city in the middle of the night. A woman in the depths of despair, as though frozen solid. The world pales for this woman who will die alone. In the oppressive silence a mouse stirs, reminiscent of an ashtray Mickey Mouse, and begins humorously leaping and dancing. It bumps the radio, and a famous jazz song gently plays. The tears of the mouse who notices the woman’s despair become a deluge, waters of life that revive the withered world. Eventu- ally all of her emotions grow into a virgintropicaljungle.Sheisreborninto a rich, vibrant world like those depicted by Botticelli or Delacroix. A sweetly beautiful animated allegory of death and rebirth created by Pitt over five years of travelling in Mexico and Guate- mala.

El Doctor　Suzan PITT / 35mm (video version) / 23min. / 2006 / USA1920s Mexico. A hard-drinking old doctor works in a hospital on the verge of collapse. He treats a man punctured with 100 holes, a woman with morning glories growing out of her body, and a woman who thinks she is a horse. All he can do is drink up. Inebriated, he looks back on his own difficult past. Combin- ing elements of magic realism and Mexican culture, the last twinklings of thedoctor’slifearetoldinvividoil colors. From Pitt at the top of her powers, a paean to life with a lively sense of horror.

Visitation　Suzan PITT / dijital / 7min. / 2012 / USA

Pinball　Suzan PITT / dijital / 12min. / 2013 / USA