Freedom of Love
During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captures Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to
his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical
attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace
romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the
provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic
movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the
'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.
Project credits
Narration: Brad Pitt
Direction & Film: Nick Knight
Motion Image Design and Edit: Adam Mufti
Production: Stardust Visions
Set Design: Bill Doig
Styling: Alister Mackie
Special thanks to Isabella Blow & Cindy Guagenti
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