7/10
double-bill time! Two seminal documentaries invite us back to the 1980s, Jennie Livingston's PARIS IS BURNING and Hiroshi Teshigahara's ANTONIO GAUDÍ
12 March 2020
"Only through the alternately eerie and euphonious score, Teshigahara seems to inject some hints of personal commentaries to the rapt viewers, whereas his camera dutifully observes, peers, scopes from varied distances and angles to establish a comprehensive visual overview of Gaudí's grotesque, sui generis, multifaceted art pieces, juttedly ensconcing themselves among our temporal existence and simultaneously distinguishing themselves from any possible angle of our collective gaze, and the most crucial impression is that Gaudí's buildings are never off-limits, they are built for the mass to gawp at, to spend time with, to dwell in, only occasionally, Teshigahara draws on imagery to suggest the possible inspirations which lead Gaudí's creative juice flow (the neo-Gothic influence for instance)."

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