Icarus Films announced this past week that French
documentary filmmaker Arthur Borgnis’ insightful look at an alternative world
and movement of artists and their works, Eternity
Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art,
will be making its domestic DVD debut on July 9.
The “Art Brut” or “Outsider Art” movement, as an
idea, was spawned by French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet following World
War II. Beyond commercial and/or
“accepted” works of art, he reasoned there was an alternate world of artistic
experience that included the mentally ill or delusional, devotees of a
spiritual world and apparitional amateurs (artists without formal training).
Filmmaker Arthur Borgnis introduces us to the
concepts of Dubuffet — and like-minded devotes of “Art Brut,” Swiss historian
and artist, Harald Szeemann, French writer, André Breton and German art
historian Hans Prinzhorn — and provides examples (the works of such “Art Brut”
artists as: Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Augustin Lesage and August Natterer)
and insights into a world of art that seems “other worldly,” for lack of a
better description.
Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with
Outsider Art is presented in French and
German with English subtitles.
Bonus features include four featurettes — “Conversation
with Laurent Danchin,” “Crossed Views on Art Brut,” “Lise Maurer Talks about
Laure Pigeon” and “Louis Poulain and Bruno Gérard of the Atelier de la
Pommeraie.”
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