Monday, November 22, 2010

Come down off the cross we could use the wood...



They've just manoeuvred the giant Jesus' head in to place in Poland. The footage reminds me of the scene in Theo Angelopoulos' epic film Ulysses' Gaze (1995) where a huge statue of Lenin has been dismantled and placed on a barge... in a striking moment, the camera watches on as Lenin's cold bust is carefully moved over the dockyards by a crane. Unfortunately I couldn't find a video of it on the net but I have posted the proceeding scene here which shows the barge slowly drifting down a canal.

This clip below is from another of Angelopoulos' films, Landscape in the Midst (1988), in which similar imagery is strikingly used; Lenin's hand is being lifted out of the water by a helicopter.

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