4.12.2024.  20:25 Split

Kategorija: Dokumentarni film
Žanr:
Zemlja: SAD
Trajanje: 90’
Godina: 2024.
Redatelj: Amei Wallach
Scenarist: Amei Wallach
Uloge:

Producent: Andrea Miller, Tal Mandil, Vanessa Bergonzoli
Produkcijska kuća:

Did the US government and a team of high-placed insiders conspire to rig the 1964 Venice Biennale so Robert Rauschenberg could become the first American to capture the art world’s greatest prize? By the early 60s, the U.S. government was obsessed with fighting Communism in a “Cultural Cold War” and shifting the center of artistic superiority from Europe to America… and they had a new weapon in the battle for avant-garde dominance: Pop Art.

Told like a real-time thriller, TAKING VENICE plunges deep into the giddy optimism, the escalating propaganda, and the growing paranoia of the Swinging Sixties, the film recounts the deft behind-the-scenes maneuvers that would leave the international press shocked and the European art world reeling in horror at the ascension of American culture. The event’s profound reverberations can still be felt in the globalized art world and across the cultural landscape where the borders between art, commercialism, and advertising continue to blur.

The film arrives just in time for the 60th anniversary of Rauschenberg’s Grand Prize in Venice in 2024 and the centennial of his birth in 2025.

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