John Mc Naughton Condo Painting (2000)
Description: Condo Painting is not, as the title might seem to suggest, an instructional film for apartment owners, but rather an 86minute documentary on the life, work and thought of George Condo, a garrulous painter with a mischievous sense of humor and an eccentric, quasimystical view of art and the world it inhabits. To call the film a documentary may be a bit misleading. Directed by the Chicago filmmaker John McNaughton ( Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Wild Things) in close collaboration with its subject, Condo Painting tries not only to record the artist s aesthetic theories but also to apply them. What results is a freeform excursion, studded with abstract musicvideo effects (and accompanied by a soundtrack featuring music by DJ Spooky, Tom Waits and the Residents), through the sensibility of a man who is sometimes enlightening, sometimes amusing and sometimes annoying.
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