''Sculpt'' is an American 2016

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film scripted and directed by

Loris Gréaud Loris Gréaud (born February 7, 1979 in Eaubonne, France) is a conceptual installation artist, as well as a filmmaker and architect. Biography He is seen in the media and recognized by international critics as one of the most important and ...

Synopsis

''Sculpt'' depicts an international market organized around shapes and experiences. In this world, thought recording is the object of a global market that thrives on a quest for moments of pure intensity, beautiful experience, thought, and obsession. The movie recounts how this ecosystem, equipped with traders, middlemen, buyers, collectors, and producers is structured, and how this elite group creates experiences. No one suspects what is woven behind those objects as its counterpoint is organized in parallel: a black market of impure experiences, and a violent and dystopian underworld. The movie follows the thoughts of a man whom viewers know little. He researches the concept of what experiencing beauty, thought, or obsession can be, without regard for the risks that subjects experience. He is convinced that he can enact the rules of this new world.

Project

''Sculpt'' was produced for the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

(LACMA). It is

’s first major exhibition project on the US west coast and his first feature-length film. LACMA CEO

Michael Govan Michael Govan (born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to his current position, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City. Early life and education Govan was born in 1963 in Nor ...

, said, “Gréaud is rethinking cinema in form, content, and its relationship to audience.” For the premier, LACMA’s Bing Theater was reconfigured for a single audience member at a time. Each screening was turned into a one-person experience, with the movie effectively watching its visitor as it is watched. Screenings took place due to a generous loan from Voodoo Queen Priestess Miriam Chamani, who permitted its distribution solely at LACMA. The film is on loan for an unspecified time.

Distribution

A series of bootlegs and stolen clips from the movie occasionally reappear via the

black market A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by noncompliance with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the se ...

, during illegal screenings throughout the world, and as far as the

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Cast

Willem Dafoe Willem James Dafoe (; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Willem Dafoe, various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for ...

Charlotte Rampling Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role ...

Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best kn ...

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Michael Lonsdale Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes named as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is best know ...

Pascal Greggory Pascal Greggory (born 8 September 1954) is a French people, French actor. Personal life Greggory is openly gay. He had long-term relationships with Patrice Chéreau and François-Marie Banier. Filmography * ''Les Sœurs Brontë'' (1979) by Andr ...

Claude Parent Claude Parent (26 February 1923 – 27 February 2016), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, was a French architect. Architect, polemicist and theoretician, Claude Parent was the first person in France to make a sharp epistemological break with mo ...

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*Voodoo Queen Priestess Miriam Chamani

References

External links

Official website
* {{IMDb title, id=5705972, title=Sculpt 2016 films Social science fiction films