Orson Welles (1915–1985), one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists, is remembered for both his mercurial brilliance and his defiantly antiauthoritarian worldview. His career as an artist spanned the roles of writer, director, and actor in theater, radio, film, and television. But it is Welles’s lesser-known creative output as a painter that informs Mark Cousins’s new documentary, The Eyes of Orson Welles, a provocative reexamination of Welles’s life, work, and visual imagination. An homage to an influential artist, the film addresses Welles’s intellectual spirit, asking how he would have met the challenges of our contemporary era. We take the opportunity to present this new essay film alongside several of Welles’s landmark films.
Susan Oxtoby, Senior Film Curator
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Susan Oxtoby, Senior Film Curator
Orson Welles (1915–1985), one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists, is remembered for both his mercurial brilliance and his defiantly antiauthoritarian worldview. His career as an artist spanned the roles of writer, director, and actor in theater, radio, film, and television. But it is Welles’s lesser-known creative output as a painter that informs Mark Cousins’s new documentary, The Eyes of Orson Welles, a provocative reexamination of Welles’s life, work, and visual imagination. An homage to an influential artist, the film addresses Welles’s intellectual spirit, asking how he would have met the challenges of our contemporary era. We take the opportunity to present this new essay film alongside several of Welles’s landmark films.
Susan Oxtoby, Senior Film Curator
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Susan Oxtoby, Senior Film Curator
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