6:15pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum / Lubar Auditorium
Tickets: $7/$5 Members, seniors, and students
Immerse yourself in the Bacon experience with this unique program of short films covering cinema’s history that reflect, like Bacon’s paintings, the chaotic world he inhabited and the radical art that he created. Jonathan Jackson, program director for the Milwaukee International Film Festival, curated the evening’s selections.
The program of films was directly inspired by the works in the exhibit and includes films that are thematically and visually linked to Bacon’s work. “A Haunting Inspiration” will spotlight three films: the seminal short, Un Chien Andalou (1929), a collaboration between film director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. Roger Ebert called this surrealist masterwork “the most famous short ever made” and Francis Bacon once said that it directly influenced him. The hauntingly poetic short film The Grandmother (1970) by renowned filmmaker David Lynch - Lynch personally cites Francis Bacon as one of his main influences and you can see it in this tale of a boy who is looking for an escape from his abusive parents and grows a grandmother to comfort him. And finally, the animated masterpiece from The Quay Brothers, Street of Crocodiles (1986), which plunges the viewer into a nightmarish netherworld of bizarre puppet rituals that displays a striking influence from Bacon.
