The White Rose

USA 1967, 16mm, b&w, sound, 7:00 min

realized by:

Bruce Conner

keywords:

exptl. documentary
painting

available copies:

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

16mm, 24fps, sound optical track

available for rent

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synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

Jay De Feo started painting THE WHITE ROSE in 1957. When the
unfinished painting was removed eight years later it weighed over
2300 pounds.

"The images selected and the order constructed become a formal
mystic service. We see the altar, the penitance, the cross, the
investiture, the descent, and finally, the mourning. The men in
garments from Bekins seem to draw strength from touching the
surface. The respect they render the painting appears as
worship." --Camille Cook

"...a fine, brief, tongue-in-cheek 'documentary' of a huge
painting being removed from an artist's studio, carried onto a
Bekin's moving van with a combination of cold efficiency and all
the lugubrious solemnity of a state funeral. It has remarkable
timing and pace, and an 'artless' style which can only come from
a deep sense of what the art is all about." --Tom Albright,
Rolling Stone

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