The VANITY of Allegory – The Film Program
From the Film "The Legend of Leigh Bowery"
by Charles Atlas, 2002, Photo: Fergus Greer, Courtesy by Fergus Greer and Palm
Pictures/ Arthouse Films
From Walt
Disney’s “Peter Pan” to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” – in
Douglas Gordon’s exhibition The VANITY of Allegory, a comprehensive film
program constitutes part of the overall work of art.
The artist and the transitory: for his installation
The VANITY of Allegory at the
Deutsche Guggenheim, the Scottish artist
Douglas Gordon combines his own works and those by other artists ranging
from
Man Ray to
Jeff Koons with films from Hollywood and the underground. At the center of
the show, which was conceived especially for the Deutsche Guggenheim, is
the self-portrait. In his installation, Gordon investigates the
intersection between the vanitas image as a testimony to the transience of
all life and the self-portrait as an expression of vanity and a means of
self-immortalization. In the process, the artist uses art and film history
as source material. Douglas combines art works and films to form a visual
collage that tells of self-staging and double identity. Already in his
video installation Between Darkness and Light (1997), Gordon
projected the saint’s biography
The Song of Bernadette on one side and the satanic horror film
The Exorcist on the other side of the same screen. Good and evil
appear as two sides of the same coin.
It’s only fitting that Gordon
has set up a special cinema at the Deutsche Guggenheim to show his own
selection of films that further explore and illuminate the exhibition
theme of The VANITY of Allegory. The spectrum ranges from Hollywood
classics such as
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’
All About Eve to a documentary on the British performance artist
Leigh Bowery. Upon request, visitors to the exhibition can obtain a
personalized admission ticket that guarantees entrance to the exhibition
and the extensive film program throughout the course of the show.
Additional special events on the theme will accompany the exhibition,
which can be been through October 9 at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.
Film Program *
The exhibition’s film program begins on July 16 2005
and is repeated on a bi-weekly basis.
Ows: Original with subtitles
OwEs: Original with English subtitles
Ov: Original version
Week 1
– Beginning on the Saturdays July 16, July 30, August 13, August 27, September
10, September 24, and October 8 respectively.
Saturday
11:15
a.m. The Searchers, John Ford, 1956, 114 min., Ows
1:30 p.m.
Peter Pan, Walt Disney, 1953, 74 min., Ows
3:00 p.m. The Legend
Of Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, 2002, 82 min., Ov
4:30 p.m.
Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca Horn, 1974-75, 40
min., Ov
5:30 p.m. Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi),
Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972, 124 min., Ows
Sunday
11:15 a.m.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney, 1937, 80 min., Ows
1:00 p.m. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Rouben Mamoulian, 1931, 92 min.,
Ov
2:45 p.m. The Damned (La caduta degli dei), Luchino Visconti,
1969, 151 min., Ows
5:30 p.m. A Clockwork Orange, Stanley
Kubrick, 1971, 131 min., Ows
Monday
11:15 a.m. Apocalypse Now
Redux, Francis Ford Coppola, 2001, 194 min., Ows
3:00 p.m. Sweet
Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, 93 min., Ows
5:00
p.m. Joseph Beuys in Scotland, Rory McEwen, 1970, 14 min., Ov
5:30 p.m. Satyricon, Federico Fellini, 1969, 124 min., Ows
Tuesday
11:15 a.m. The Fountainhead, King Vidor, 1949, 114 min.,
Ov
1:15 p.m. Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 110 min.,
OwEs
3:15 p.m. Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca
Horn, 1974-75, 40 min., Ov
4:15 p.m. The Swimmer, Frank Perry,
1968, 91 min., Ows
6:00 p.m. In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no
corrida), Nagisa Oshima, 1976, 98 min., OwEs
Wednesday
11:15
a.m. All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950, 133 min., Ows
1:45 p.m. Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca Horn,
1974-75, 40 min., Ov
2:45 p.m. Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky,
1969, 175 min., Ows
6:00 p.m. Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini,
1968, 95 min., english version
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Installation view: The Vanity of Allegory
at Deutsche Guggenheim, Photo: Eva Maria Ocherbauer
Thursday
11:15 a.m. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Albert Lewin, 1945,
110 min., Ov
1:15 p.m. If...., Lindsay Anderson, 1968, 101 min.,
Ov
3:15 p.m. The Searchers , John Ford, 1956, 114 min., Ows
5:30 p.m. The Legend of Leigh Bowery , Charles Atlas, 2002, 82
min., Ov
7:15 p.m. The Damned (La caduta degli dei), Luchino
Visconti, 1969, 151 min., Ows
Friday
11:15 a.m. Andrei Rublev
, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969, 175 min., Ows
2:30 p.m. Last Tango in Paris
(Ultimo tango a Parigi), Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972, 124 min., Ows
4:45 p.m. Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca Horn,
1974-75, 40 min., Ov
5:30 p.m. Joseph Beuys in Scotland, Rory
McEwen, 1970, 14 min., Ov
6:00 p.m. Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc
Godard, 1965, 110 min., OwEs
Week 2
– Beginning on the Saturdays July 23, August 6, August 20, September 3,
September 17, and October 1 respectively.
Saturday
11:15 a.m.
Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca Horn, 1974-75, 40
min., Ov
12:00 p.m. All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950,
133 min., Ows
2:30 p.m. The Swimmer, Frank Perry, 1968, 91 min.,
Ows
4:30 p.m. Apocalypse Now Redux, Francis Ford Coppola, 2001,
194 min., Ows
Sunday
11:15 a.m. The Fountainhead, King
Vidor, 1949, 114 min., Ov
1:30 p.m. The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Albert Lewin, 1945, 110 min., Ov
3:30 p.m. Satyricon, Federico
Fellini, 1969, 124 min., Ows
6:00 p.m. If.... , Lindsay
Anderson, 1968, 101 min., Ov
Monday
11:15 a.m. Peter Pan,
Walt Disney, 1953, 74 min., Ows
12:45 p.m. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
, Rouben Mamoulian, 1931, 92 min., Ov
2:30 p.m. Joseph Beuys in Scotland
, Rory McEwen, 1970, 14 min., Ov
3:00 p.m. Teorema, Pier Paolo
Pasolini, 1968, 95 min., Ov
4:45 p.m. Andrei Rublev, Andrei
Tarkovsky, 1969, 175 min., Ows
Tuesday
11:15 a.m. Pierrot le
fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 110 min., OwEs
1:30 p.m. Joseph
Beuys in Scotland, Rory McEwen, 1970, 14 min., Ov
2:00 p.m.
Apocalypse Now Redux, Francis Ford Coppola, 2001, 194 min., Ows
5:30 p.m. A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 131 min., Ows
Wednesday
11:15 a.m. The Searchers, John Ford, 1956, 114 min., Ows
1:30 p.m. Berlin: Dreaming under Water , Rebecca Horn, 1974-75, 40
min., Ov
2:30 p.m. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney,
1937, 80 min., Ows
14:00 p.m. Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a
Parigi), Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972, 124 min., Ows
6:15 p.m. The
Legend of Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, 2002, 82 min., Ov
Thursday
11:15 a.m. Satyricon, Federico Fellini, 1969, 124 min.,
Ows
1:45 p.m. All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950, 133
min., Ows
4:15 p.m. If...., Lindsay Anderson, 1968, 101 min., Ov
6:15 p.m. The Picture of Dorian Gra y, Albert Lewin, 1945, 110 min., Ov
8:15 p.m. Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, 95 min., english version
Friday
11:15 a.m. Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water, Rebecca
Horn, 1974-75, 40 min., Ov
12:00 p.m. The Damned (La caduta degli dei
), Luchino Visconti, 1969, 151 min., Ows
2:45 p.m. Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney, 1937, 80 min., Ows
4:15 p.m. Sweet
Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, 93 min., Ows
6:00
p.m. In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), Nagisa Oshima,
1976, 98 min., OwEs
* Certain films are subject to age
restriction and are not suitable for children and minors under the age of
18.
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