BALTHUS: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Excerpt from the film BALTHUS: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, a Facets Video release. Directed by Damian Pettigrew. Formore info or to order this film, visit www.facetsdvd.com or contact sales@facets.org. Facets Multi-Media is a non-profit media arts organization founded in Chicago in 1975, and dedicated to making cinema accessible to all through film preservation, distribution, presentation, and education. For more information, visit www.facets.org Award-winning director Damian Pettigrew (Fellini I'm a Born Liar) offers this definitive portrait of Balthus, a modern artist whose work was nonetheless out of step with most modern movements. His huge canvases with their thickly applied paint feature dreamy adolescent girls in enigmatic poses, resulting in an erotically charged and oddly disorienting style. Pettigrew's documentary highlights the painter's complex creative process as he films the artist at work in his studio in the Swiss mountains. Famous friends and family members bare witness to the great artist's life in exclusive interviews, accompanied by photos by such luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn.



































