The The Mill and the Cross. Somewhere Between Metapainting and Transmedia Storytelling
Abstract
Polish director Lech Majewski based his film «The Mill and the Cross» on two different sources: Michael Francis Gibson’s homonymous dissertation and The Procession to Calvary, Brueghel’s oil-on-panel masterpiece. The filmmaker paints a picture within another, a hu- mongous, slow and silent tableaux vivant because slow is the creative process as well. Only the conversation between the painter and the art dealer, in which the first one explains the ways his painting has been made, breaks the quietness.
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