Good news: There's an amazing, must -see video installation at the Grand Palais.
Bad news: It closes on December 31 at 9PM.
Dans la Nuit ,des Images fills the cavernous Grand Palais with 130 screens of videos and films from international artists and filmmakers including Robert Wilson, Bill Viola, Chris Marker, Rosemary Trockel, Christian Marclay, legendary animators Hannah and Barbera(creators of The Flintstones and The Jetsons), Nam Juin Pak, and the world's oldest working filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, who just turned 100.
Highlights were the 1956 William Klein film Broadway by Light, a romantic reminder of what Times Square once was with colorful neon signs and Data.tron by electronic music composer Ryoji Ikeda, a digital landscape with millions of numbers on the screen changing by the nanosecond.
The atmosphere was so seductive with very little lighting besides the films playing and I loved the way the screens were juxtaposed so that you can see many films going on at the same time.
Dans la Nuit, des Images
Grand Palais
Ave. Winston Churchill
Metro: Champs Elysees- Clemenceau, #1 or #13
Open 5PM till 1AM on Dec. 29,30 and till 9PM on Dec. 31
Free
http://grandpalais.fr
William Klein's Broadway by Light from 1956
Moi and Vincent in front of Ryoji Ikeda's Data.tron
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
wow - looks extraordinary. happy new year.
Posted by: LW | December 30, 2008 at 08:31 AM