Bad at Sports » The Blood of the Poet http://badatsports.com Contemporay art talk without the ego Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:21:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tuesday’s Video Pick | 10.27.09 http://badatsports.com/2009/tuesdays-video-pick-10-27-09/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/tuesdays-video-pick-10-27-09/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:47:18 +0000 Meg Onli http://badatsports.com/?p=10961

On this week’s pick we bring you a clip from the 1930′s film ‘Le Sang d’un Poete’ or ‘The Blood of the Poet’ by Jean Cocteau.

via  netcomuk:

“Technically, The Blood of a Poet reflects Cocteau’s trials and errors as a novice filmmaker who had to turn irreversible mistakes to his advantage and improvise every celluloid foot of the way. During shooting, he used the dust raised by studio cleaning men to enhance the mysterious atmosphere of the final scenes. Special weightless effects were obtained by camera trickery to show the little girl flying up to the ceiling and the poet moving painfully along the corridor wall. Once Cocteau discovered that he could turn shooting disasters into happy accidents, he was off on a career of making films that carried his cachet of surprises…”

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