Les Dieux Changeants is a CGI short film that depicts the virtual demolition of some of
the great sculptures of Western art history.
The film creates a visually intriguing legacy: the static millenary beauty of those marbles
being suddenly put into motion by a physical event, the hit of a bullet.
The act of destruction is represented allegorically, as an uncertain process oscillating
between negative annihilation and positive creativity readable on many levels and left
open to the viewer to discern. Its philosophical meaning is open to interpretation,
accompaniend by the emblematic end quote from Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake
Zarathustra”. It could be seen as the end of something, a transformation, a cycle, a re-
evaluation of established values, the beginning of something new, or just something
mysterious or fascinating to look at.
All the statues portrayed in the film are 3d scans from real life casts created by Denmark's
Statens Museum for Kunst. This film is a contribution to Open, the Museum initiative to
digitize their entire collection in order to make it freely available for the public to use,
remix and re-elaborate to create new art.
Whats Next?
Screening | Date | Tickets |
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Multi-Screening: GONE, Les Dieux Changeants, Three Rooms, La Cena De Silvia, THE BLACK CHRIST, REMEMBER, Shooting Star, RUINS @ Virtual Theater | October 22, 2021, 7:30 pm CST | Purchase Tickets |