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A Test of Violence( 1969)

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Stuart Cooper's short about the work of Spanish artist Juan Genovés is an inspired introduction to the works of this extraordinary artist, exploring its minimalist aesthetic and storytelling qualities through a variety of cinematic techniques, including rostrum, animation, news footage and live action recreations.

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Jun 06 2025
    This takes quite an interesting look at the paintings of Spaniard Juan Genovés but I found it rather submerges them in a little too much confusing artistic gimmickry that rather overwhelms the artistry in a blur of augmented and sometimes quite oblique graphics and imagery. His paintings, when they do feature, offer us a starkly powerful and often bleakly crafted monochrome look at our inhumanity to each other with the only colour involved being blood red, but as this film’s creator Stuart Cooper starts to add his own perspective to the man’s work it loses it’s focus, especially when the wartim...

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    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • art