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We had to trim this tree back.
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It was blocking all the light.
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I set out on a series of trips,filming here and there...
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faces and words,museums, rivers, and art.
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I listened to people I met --sometimes by chance --
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AGNÈS VARDA
FROM HERE TO THERE
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especially artists whose work I like.
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When I returned from my first trip,
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the tree already had new shoots.
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I continued my travels,by train or plane,
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filming in every city,not to file a report,
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but to capture fragments,moments, people.
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The tree was coming back to life.
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I came and went...
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and Jean-Baptiste and I editedthe material I'd gathered.
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But long before I completedmy journeys and my work,
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which lasted well over a year,
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the tree,with new shoots and leaves,
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had grown back all its foliagein less than three months.
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You see the process herein under two minutes.
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And viewers will seethese chronicles over several days.
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So this series shoots and leaves,so to speak.
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In this last episode...
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we have Los Angeles,the painter Van der Weyden,
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Avignon on the Rhone, then Mexico,
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then back to Parisfor skulls and vanitas.
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Off we go. It'll be quite a trip.
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Long hours in the air.
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I really enjoy this time out of time.
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I'm going to Los Angelesfor a short stay.
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First, I see the Pacific Ocean again...
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some palm trees, Venice...
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the piers...
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and Santa Monica...
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where my friendsPatricia Knop and Zalman King live.
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This is their garden.
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He's a producer and director.
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She's a screenwriterand former sculptress.
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When she was young,
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she wanted to make realitylarger than life.
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She used her family as models.
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First, her lover Zalman.
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Later her daughtersand close friends.
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Her parents too.
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Patricia's sculpture of herself
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reigns over this museum-house.
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She has also collectedangels of all sizes.
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Birds and cats live heretogether peacefully.
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She bringsthe smallest angels out for air.
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She tries out some backdrops
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in the form of paintingsshe buys at yard sales.
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Patricia likes naive art.
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Her daughter Chloe does too.
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Armistead makes his own frames.
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Another "naive" artist,
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a hero of outsider art,built towers in Watts.
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He was a bricklayer of Italian origin...
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Simon Rodia.
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The towers have been restoredand fenced in.
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You pay to visit them.
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Forty years ago,
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I remember stepping overrailroad tracks to see them.
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People were camped out below.
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Rodia built these monumentson evenings and Sundays.
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He reminds me of the postmanFerdinand Cheval,
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who built his Ideal Palacewith stones gathered in a wheelbarrow
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on his way homefrom his mail route.
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There's something elseto see in Watts.
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Past houses and housing projects,
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we reach Nickerson Gardens.
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These walls stand in memoryof the local dead,
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victims of gang warfare.
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In the late 1970s in East L.A.,
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I filmed murals paintedfor the dead of rival gangs.
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Gang memberswere called "homeboys."
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They'd paint the memorials themselves.
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Here in Watts it's very different.They write.
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We see only the names of those killed.
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A terrible listof names and nicknames.
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A monument of names.
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Back to Venice,where Jim Morrison lived.
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He too is gone...
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but not forgotten.
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There he is. Jim. Unforgettable.
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Back to the palm trees...
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Venice Pier, my base...
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and the surrounding beaches.
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In particular, a balconywhere I lived for two years.
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I set up a blue screen,which can receive any image.
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As an echo... or a memory.
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My son Mathieu and Sabine in a film.
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I used the same techniqueon the big beach in Sète
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to create a complex imagewith mirrors and variations.
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From rowboat to plane,
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from sea foam to clouds,
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from sky to earth,
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and from train to carto go view some paintings.
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We're heading to Frankfurt, Germany...
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to see an expositionof two 15th-century painters...
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Rogier de la Pasture,known as Van der Weyden,
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and the Master of Flemalle,also known as Robert Campin,
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though experts still argue
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over who painted what.
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Van der Weyden's worktouches me most deeply.
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First, the Annunciations.This one is at the Louvre.
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The Annunciation...
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a major themein sacred history and painting...
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and a subtle and discreet lookat male-female relationships.
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The usual details are all here.
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A bouquet of lilies on the floor.
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The Angel's robe,his wings, his gestures.
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The book the Virgin holds...
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and her expression, sometimes serene,sometimes astonished.
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Each painter invented variations
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and degreesof distance or complicity
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between the Angel and the Virgin.
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From my motherI inherited a great curiosity
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about this encounterbetween the Angel and Mary
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as told by the painters.
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She collected postcards,and I continued the tradition.
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The Angel almost always entersfrom the left...
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smiling, discreet, shy, respectful.
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Or he arrivesin mystical fashion from above.
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Or he bursts in, surprising the Virgin.
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The rare entrances from the rightinspired master painters.
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Philippe de Champaigne, Rubens...
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Nicolas Poussin...
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and Lorenzo Lotto...
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with this unique Annunciation.
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Unique because the Angelfrightens the cat,
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but nothing scares this Virgin.
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Jan de Beer also placed a catin this mystical scene.
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But his cat is calm.
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Back to Rogier Van der Weyden.
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An annunciation
on the Beaune Altarpiece...
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The Last Judgment.
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The Archangel Michaelweighs the souls of the dead.
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For some it's a heavy trial.They will suffer in hell.
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The saved are resurrected...
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and praise the Lord.
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This same gesture expresses pain
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for this Mary shedding tears for Christ.
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From crucifixion to deposition,
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Van der Weyden conveys sorrow.
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Sorrow that goesbeyond sacred history.
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Human sorrow.
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In France,on a street in Provence, a pietà.
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Christ's body is arched,as in the famous Avignon Pietà,
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now in the Louvre.
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This painting by Enguerrand Quarton
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was originally at the charterhousein Villeneuve-lès-Avignon...
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as was his Coronation of the Virgin.
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His representation of holy Jerusalem
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bears a strong resemblanceto Avignon's ramparts.
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From the Rhônewe see Villeneuve on one side...
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Avignon on the other.
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I'll never forgetthe first theater festivals here...
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dazzling eveningsat the Palais des Papes,
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Jean Vilar's innovative work.
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I can't help but remember.
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On the famous Pont d'Avignon,people still dance in circles...
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as does the merry-go-roundoutside the Opera Theater...
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where Le Chanteur de Mexico
is playing.
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My daughter Rosaliedid the costumes
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and Christophe Vallauxdesigned the sets.
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Mathieu Abelli sings the title role.
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Jump cut: I'm in Mexico City,
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a complex megalopolis.
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Altitude and pollution.But I feel only curiosity.
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I head first to a market...
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the best spot to see people, life,
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browsers, buyers.
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I like this crowd.
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There's movement and color...
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and suddenly a face.
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Some of my films are being presented.That's why I'm here.
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I tell them I feel loved and at homein all the world's cinematheques.
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I say it modestly, with pleasure.
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They spoil me.They've lent me a car...
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a driver, Tito...
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and an interpreter, Jorge.
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I'm in a beautiful hotel,decorated with antiques.
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Here are Jorgeand my assistant Elodie.
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It's Saturday.There's a lovely wedding.
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They made a mistake.
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They gave Elodie a bridal bath suite.
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She shows it to me.
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I ask her to pose. She agrees.
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Meanwhile, Jorge ticklesthe keys of the bar piano.
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I film the breakfast buffet.
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This abundance is quite scandalous.
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There are thousandsof unemployed and poor in Mexico.
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On the streetswe see people scraping by...
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doing what they can.
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There's alsothe Guadalajara Film Festival.
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Now that I'm old...
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everyone tends to give meawards and trophies.
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I'm also invitedto speak at universities.
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A discussion about documentaries
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led by filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo.
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In any case...
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you need film, you need video...
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you need equipment.
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Then we dine on the hilland continue talking cinema
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with the festival staff.
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Though some say it's better to diethan miss the Morelia Film Festival.
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Like filmmaker Carlos Reygadas...
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who's been causing a sensationat Cannes since 2005.
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We're on our way to see himin his village of Ocotitlán.
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In the distance isPopocatepetl Volcano.
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They say flying saucers land there.
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I'm actually a lawyer.
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I studied military justice,the right to use force
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and engage in armed conflict.
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I worked forthe European Commission in Belgium,
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then for the Mexican Foreign Service,
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doing preparatory workfor the International Criminal Court.
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The Brussels film museumis a great place.
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I'd go see two films a day.
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I liked my work,but I didn't like the lifestyle it imposes.
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Cinema was kind of an excuseto change my life.
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At a certain point,especially when I wanted kids,
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I decided to come home to Mexico.
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Mexico is a wonderful placeto raise children.
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Your film Japón really hit me hard.
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It's a film about despair and solitude.
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The man's solitude,and the old woman's.
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She tells us so much about being old.
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She really made an impression on me.
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What made you choosesuch a dark subject for your first film?
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There's a man who wants to die.
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He's in a situationwhere he wants to kill himself,
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commit suicide.
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For him it's a clear, active,
considered, rational choice.
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Why live?
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I think that question,
which I've been asking myself --
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or used to ask myself --
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ever since I was very young,
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inspired the film.
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You dared to film one of the mostextraordinary love scenes in film.
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How did it come about?Was it meant to happen?
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Was it written that way?
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What I'd like
is to have intercourse with you.
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It's more complicated than that,
but that's basically it.
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I'd like to if you'd like to.
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- You mean casual sex?
- Excuse me?
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You tell me.
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I mean... sexual relations.
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It's important for me right now.
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But don't you see I'm very old?
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It doesn't matter.
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We needed a woman for the role.We found her in the village.
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We were lucky to find Magdalena.
She's amazing.
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Of course I explained it all to herbefore filming.
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I knew she was modestand that it would be hard for her,
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but she'd alsopromised me she'd do it.
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I told the man...
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"You just tell her to do like this,
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to assume the position,
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and you take it from there."
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And I told the woman,
"Do what he asks you to."
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Here is Reygadaswith his wife Natalia
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and their children, Elazar and Ruth.
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Tell Agnes your name.
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I'm a father.
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Mainly.
Though I do love to make films.
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But I do other things too.
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Such as?
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I'm building a house at the moment.
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And I play soccer.
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With a team? We saw a field.
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Yes, here in the village.
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What's the team called?
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Ocotitlán, the name of this place.
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Do you play other villages?
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Sure, the whole region.
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What position do you play?
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I'm the center midfielder.
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That's great.
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On the way back to Mexico City,
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I'm still thinking about Reygadas.
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Traffic is always heavy.
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We're going to Frida Kahlo's house.
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I always enjoy coming here.
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It's a festival of color.
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Frida lived herewith the famous painter Diego Rivera.
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She herself wasa great and remarkable artist too.
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In this museumwe see Frida's personal things,
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her collections,her bedspread, her pillows.
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There are several paintings too,
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but you can't filmor take pictures of them.
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Far from the museum,
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the world of Frida's paintingsis a violent one.
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It reflects her tormented healthand her wounds of every kind.
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It's both realistic and imaginary.
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Frida is loved for her paintingsand through her paintings.
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She's wholly present there.
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The blue in her courtyard
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came long afterthe indigo blue of the Tuareg...
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and beforeYves Klein's copyrighted blue.
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Here it illuminatesthe portrait I took of Alfredo.
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Off we go, Alfredo at the wheel.
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"God's love is wonderful,"they sing.
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The flea market has everything --like everywhere.
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Local things too.
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I find a bird and a catin a style I like.
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Shall I wrap them up?
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Twenty years earlier...
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I'd brought home these animals,
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a specialty of the village of Tonalá.
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I'd like to see the craftsmen again.
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Off we go, Alfredo at the wheel.
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There are shops and workshops,
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but nothing resembleswhat I'm looking for.
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In the only place with animals,I inquire.
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"Now it's shiny enamel.
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Quicker to make,"says the saleswoman.
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She proudly sells plates
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with traditional bird motifs.
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Tonalá thanks us for visiting.
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TONALÁ THANKS YOU FOR VISITING
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We're off to see an unusual factory:
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Jumex. Mexican juices.
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It's known for its collectionof contemporary art.
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Michel Blancsube welcomes us.
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A fruit juice company.
Quite well-known.
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Eugenio López Alonso
collects contemporary art.
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He's the only son
of Jumex's owner and founder.
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I came here in February 2001to install a work
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that Eugenio López Alonso had bought:
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the oval billiard tableby Gabriel Orozco.
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Gabriel Orozco recently hadan exposition at the Pompidou.
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His skinny car was there --
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the one that made him famous --
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and many other pieces.
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Feels like Mexico.
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To install the billiard table,
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bringing over a French guy
from the Marseille museum was cheaper
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than bringing over
the two English guys who built it.
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So the Mexican collector...
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opted for the French guy.
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I came here for a six-month trial.
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I've been here almost nine years.
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The gallery entranceis down this old factory alley.
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In 2006, he had the good idea
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of letting me curate exhibitionsculled from his collection.
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I'm eager to see the collection,but the timing's bad.
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They're in between exhibitions.
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I'm disappointed at spending90 minutes in heavy traffic
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just to see crates!
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I can show you
some two-dimensional works.
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A photo by Santiago Sierra.
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He paid a guy to spend 360 hours
squeezed in there.
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He says that with money
you can get anyone to do anything.
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I think that kind of provocation
has its limits.
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00:34:44,791 --> 00:34:46,750
Ah, a Boltanski!
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From the 1980s,
one of his famous Monuments.
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Beautiful!
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We just filmed him at length
at his expo at the Grand Palais.
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I think I read
these were photos he hadn't used,
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so he cut them up
and recycled them
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in his Monuments.
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Here are two elements
from a Matthew Barney triptych
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to be shown in a museum
you may know of: Schaulager.
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Yes, in fact at the Schaulager,
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I saw a Matthew Barney exposition.I didn't film anything...
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but I photographeda large piece by Barney...
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a small Cranach near a dirt pile...
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and Matthew himself.
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Back to Mexico City.
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Murals. Graffiti artists.
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From reflections in the street...
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to the optical effects of Olafur Eliasson.
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We're in the new university museum...
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the MUAC.
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There's a lot to see,
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because Mexican collectorsshow their acquisitions here.
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Rafael Sámano,museum coordinator, explains.
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I recognize him from the front rowof the cinematheque every night.
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Here he iswith Dan Graham's one-way mirrors.
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00:36:50,834 --> 00:36:54,712
How does it work?Can we see you from the other side?
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00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:56,964
No, it's a mirror.
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00:36:57,257 --> 00:37:01,468
But how does it reflecton the other side?
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- There's a birefractive film.
- Exactly.
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There's a mirror
that's like a Gesell dome
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00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:13,147
used in police interrogations.
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00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,402
From police to armyis just a few steps.
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A large piece by Thomas Hirschhorn.
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00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:27,578
He took globes and daubed onmilitary camouflage.
390
00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:32,416
Above them, he placed photosof soldiers wounded in Iraq.
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A form invented for this terrible reality.
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Nearby, a wall of greeneryand fluorescent lights
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by Anglo-Mexican artistMelanie Smith.
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Her children are here.
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00:37:55,023 --> 00:37:57,107
She posed for me too.
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This woman toois an artist in her own way:
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Rosario, the woman in pink.
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00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:07,284
She looks likeshe's dressed for the stage.
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Actually, starting at dawn,
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she cleans the entranceto the Tlalpan market.
401
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I admire her striving for eleganceand her courtesy to passersby
402
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and to those who buyher homemade flans
403
00:38:23,426 --> 00:38:25,761
and her knitted booties.
404
00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:29,932
I knit booties.
405
00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:32,726
How much are they?
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00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:35,813
85 and 120.
407
00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,984
It's a local market.Everyone knows everyone.
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00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:53,330
They're playing Brisca.
409
00:38:53,456 --> 00:38:56,083
The club cards look like chilies.
410
00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:59,670
I follow the chiliestill I reach a woman
411
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:04,091
who makes the best mole in Mexico,according to Paula Verde.
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00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:09,513
They saythis is the best mole in town.
413
00:39:09,848 --> 00:39:12,015
Of course it's the best.
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00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:13,517
You believe it?
415
00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:15,602
Of course I believe it.
416
00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:21,316
People come from all overto buy it at your store.
417
00:39:21,442 --> 00:39:24,194
You know that?
- Yes.
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Mole powder...
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00:39:27,574 --> 00:39:29,908
to be added to chicken broth,
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00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:32,536
is made with 15 ingredients,
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including a small chili peppercalled piquín.
422
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:38,000
What's that?
423
00:39:39,085 --> 00:39:40,711
Piquín chili.
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00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:44,631
It has mulato,
ancho, and pasilla chilies...
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00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:49,469
almonds, raisins, peanuts,
sesame seeds...
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00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:52,264
plantains...
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00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,392
onions...
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00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,729
pumpkin seeds...
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00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,442
bread crumbs...
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00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:06,820
pepper, cumin, cinnamon...
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and chocolate.
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00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,824
- You make it yourself?
- Yes, at home.
433
00:40:10,950 --> 00:40:13,785
How do you say "recipe"?Is it your recipe?
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Yes. My grandmother's recipe,
my mother's, the whole family's.
435
00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:20,375
It's a tradition.
436
00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:25,422
The Popular Art Museum is a delight.
437
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:29,259
A tree of life. Naive art.
438
00:40:42,774 --> 00:40:44,608
Not everything is bucolic.
439
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,027
Here's a demon rapist
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00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:49,446
with an avenging Virtue.
441
00:40:55,787 --> 00:40:59,414
The theme of death inspireseveryone's imagination.
442
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:02,292
Little skeletons are everywhere:
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as railway workers,road workers, and cangaceiros.
444
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:25,899
In the shop, you can buy skulls.
445
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:30,404
There's a wide selection.
446
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:34,825
And skeleton dolls in local dress.
447
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:41,790
I brought back some dry skeletons
448
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,251
for my courtyard in winter.
449
00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:48,922
And a little traveling fold-up bar.
450
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Mexicans create objectsand make jokes to tame death.
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Back home the approach is different...
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less playful.
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Woman and death...
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flesh and bone.
455
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Recurring themes...
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as seen by the old school...
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or by Marina Abramović.
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These works were at the FondationPierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent.
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At the Maillol Museum,the same subject,
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as depictedfrom first-century Pompeii onward.
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Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas...
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All is vanity.
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The Latin inscription is clear:
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"After man come the worms,
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after the wormscomes the stench."
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Cezanne took a classic approach.
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Daniel Spoerrichose distance and humor
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by combining a kitschy lion tapestryand a real skeleton.
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The hunter, no doubt.
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A little lounge coffinwith feet made of skulls.
471
00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:01,304
The moon we're walking on here...
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is Miquel Barceló's skull.
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Annette Messager providedcommentary on her own skull.
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They're black or dark-brown gloves.
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In the gloves I've inserted
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colored pencils like fingernails.
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They're sharp and pointed,
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like long fingernails sticking out.
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I assembled themto form a large head.
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A skull.
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Niki de Saint Phalle's skulldoesn't seem deadly to me.
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She brings in lace and a heart.
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00:44:44,223 --> 00:44:46,349
I immediately associate her skull
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with her Nanas,
so full of heart and curves.
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This beautiful sprawling "nana"by Aristide Maillol
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takes on its full meaning here.
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Chance brought these skulls --including this one by Yan Pei-Ming --
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and disincarnate visions of humanityto the Maillol Museum.
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Maillol himself celebrated lifeby sculpting in stone
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the flesh of women's bodies.
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