![]() Following a career as a building constructor in Toronto, he has devoted himself to the arts. Tom Rasky is an independent filmmaker, animator, jazz musician, sound engineer, and visual artist. ![]() His work is included in the collections of many museums, including the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), the Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and he has regularly exhibited around the world, notably with retrospective exhibitions in Germany and Holland ( Les Ongles en Deuil, 1995–1996), France ( Chairdâme, 2001), Austria ( animo.!, 2008), and Switzerland ( animo.!, 2008–2009). A retrospective of his work is currently on view at Lille Metropole Musee d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut ( LaM). At the same time, he also was a cofounder of the major museum of art brut in France, L’Aracine, now part of the Lille Métropole musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain, et d’art brut (LaM). ![]() Following his encounter with the work of avant-garde filmmaker Téo Hernandez, he began extensive travels in India, Morocco, and Mexico, became an avant-garde filmmaker (having participated in the group MétroBarbèsRochechouArt), and generally began his artistic endeavors. His discovery of the Holocaust, in which he lost several family members, occurred with the shock of seeing Alain Resnais’s film Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog), which inspired both his drawing and doll-making. Michel Nedjar was born in 1947 in the Parisian suburb of Soisy-sous-Montmorency to an Algerian Jewish father and a Polish Jewish mother. His work has been supported by Fulbright, Étant Donnés, and Japan Foundation grants, and he teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of more than forty books in the fields of performance theory, landscape architecture, gastronomy, sound art, and experimental theater, including Phantasmic Radio (Duke University Press) Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime (SUNY Press) Varieties of Audio Mimesis: Musical Evocations of Landscape (Errant Bodies) Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics (Reaktion Books) two culinary autobiographies, Autobiographie dans un chou farci (Mercure de France) and Métaphysique de la miette (Argol) as well as a novel, Le livre bouffon (Le Seuil). Besides the three versions of danse macabre that he created with the dolls of Michel Nedjar, he has also directed Theater of the Ears (a play for electronic marionette and taped voice based on the writings of Valère Novarina) and produced with Gregory Whitehead L’Indomptable for France Culture Radio, as well as both Glissando (Hörspiel) and Radio Gidayū (soundscape/ musique concrète) for the Klangkunst program at Deutschlandradio Kultur. His object theater My Dolls has been performed internationally. Weiss curated the show and edited the catalog Poupées (Dolls) at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris. This special event has sold out. To be added to the waiting list, please email org.Īllen S. ![]() 63 minutes.ĭolls of Darkness is a subtitled version of the original film, Poupées des ténèbres (2016). Original music by Alex Waterman, Sasha Boychouk, and Brandon Besharah. It focuses on his studio and his vast collection of magic dolls and masks from around the world, and examines the role of the Holocaust in the artist’s creative process. ĭolls of Darkness is a feature-length film that explores the mysteries and profundities of dolls, puppets, and marionettes in the context of the grotesque rag dolls of contemporary French artist Michel Nedjar. Weiss and Valérie Rousseau, curator, self-taught art and art brut, American Folk Art Museum. Join us for a special screening of Dolls of Darkness: The Art of Michel Nedjar, a new documentary film by Allen S.
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