2025-05-09

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Great Art Explained

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This film was made with the help of the Leonora Carrington Estate and the invaluable support of her grandson Daniel Weisz. Please join their wonderful instagram page @leonoracarringtonestate - https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/?hl=en

This is a film about magic.

Leonora Carrington’s paintings are populated with mythical creatures, alchemy, folklore, fairy tales, the occult and human-animal hybrids. She was an artist who explored the limits of the imagination and was dedicated to free expression - especially when it meant breaking the rules.

Her life story is extraordinary - but so is the art she created. A true visionary, Carrington produced some of the most remarkable paintings of the 20th Century, where beasts lurk behind every doorway, rituals unfold in dim-lit chambers, and women become cats, witches, and alchemists - architects of their own dark metamorphosis.

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CREDITS

Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)

Recording by Robert Lewis

Script by Laura Beardsell-Moore and James Payne

Directed and edited by James Payne

VIDEOS

All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them.

The Debutante is a film by Elizabeth Hobbs, produced by Animate Projects, with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, and with thanks to the Estate of Leonora Carrington. You can watch the whole film here - https://vimeo.com/940848616

Leonora Carrington (1992) - visit to the artist in her home on Mexico City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aooKLEHQg&t=2019s

Leonora Carrington - Don't Try to Intellectualise art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aooKLEHQg&t=2019s

Das siebente Pferd oder Penelope, Leonora Carrington Trailer, Regie Giulia Giammona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5TUp0l5_1g

MUSIC

Ballet Mécanique by George Antheil

BOOKS

The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. Aberth

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead

The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington

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