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ACTOR
Chris BurdenMarina AbramovicVito AcconciLarry Bell
DIRECTOR
Richard Dewey,Timothy Marrinan
SYNOPSICS
Burden (2016) is a English movie. Richard Dewey,Timothy Marrinan has directed this movie. Chris Burden,Marina Abramovic,Vito Acconci,Larry Bell are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Burden (2016) is considered one of the best Documentary,Biography movie in India and around the world.
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.
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Burden (2016) Reviews
Burden or Blessing?
Chris Burden warped the world to his visions of performance art. While there were times of uncomfortability, there were times of great amusement and awe. Burden was a misunderstood man without a doubt. He had a way of seeing things in ways no one else did, whether that be a good thing or a bad thing. Being new to the performance art world, this documentary could scare you. Burden does things that in today's standard could have him considered to be put in a psych unit. However, I admire his ambition and bravery through it all. Chris Burden as a performance artist is intimidating to say the least, but Chris Burden as a sculpture artist is so warming. He has produced so many marvelous installations for the public to see. Burden changed the art world without even knowing what he was starting. While he did cause a lot of controversy, he still continued his work without censorship. His "pieces don't provide answers, they ask questions," is almost an understatement. Out of ten stars, I would rate this an eight out of ten. Personally, I found it very interesting to get a kind of behind-the-scenes with Chris Burden, because you don't always get to hear an artist describe their work and it means a lot to me to know. While the documentary has a heavy undertone of toxic masculinity, it shows who Chris Burden was, a blessing in disguise.
Chris Burden: Genius or Psycho?
Burden is directed by Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan and showcases the life of the artist Chris Burden and his career which ranges from performance, sculpting, and installation. The movie shows his many attempts to reach new boundaries in the art scene. This makes the viewer question if we should call his violent, life-endangering work art and how broad the definition for art is. The documentary is structured chronologically with Chris Burden's life from his experimental college days to his remarkable installations towards his final decade. It has cross-cutting between newly-documented interviews with first hand accounts and older footage of Chris in his youth. The viewpoints the filmmakers were able to obtain for this biography really makes you feel like you knew who he was and you will have trouble not becoming an instant fan. Chris Burden had opposers who didn't think his work should be classified as art but the act of a madman. Purposefully putting yourself at risk in order to convey a message didn't go well with mainstream art audiences in the seventies. Chris however does mention the similarities to notable artists when they were experimenting and attempting techniques never seen before. He argues that art should be about pushing the bar and making a unique impact in the culture. Towards the latter end of his life is where Chris proves his spot in a list of prominent artists. He stated how he admired sculptures in how they require action from the viewer to analyze work from all angles unlike a 2-dimensional painting. He takes this idea to the extreme when looking at his works which include Metropolis II and Medusa's Head. It is quite astonishing the detail and craftsmanship in both of these works and which also don't have a message requiring the gamble of someone's life.
Entertaining if not thought provoking
You don't have to be familiar with; or even like, the artist to find something meaningful in this movie, nor have familiarity with his works to find fascination within the confines of its premise. This movie asks a fundamental question, what is art? Then drops the viewer down a rabbit hole of what can often be a confusing kaleidoscope of ideas. The very act of determining meaning, validity and depth of purpose from these portrayed pieces is in itself a kind of interpretive dance, which alone defines the feelings felt by the artists audiences the world over. It begets controversy, which is itself a catalyst for conversation. Either way, these acts portrayed created a wave of phycological movement that inspired many, even if only to ask such fundamental questions as: "what is art?" No matter if you find the acts depicted to be art, or just demented physically realized fever dreams worthy of no more thought than that of acts performed by inhabitants in your local asylum, you should at least be entertained, and at most inspired to think.
Burden: Defining Art
Burden is a documentary that follows Chris Burden, the renowned Performance and Sculptural artist, through the stages of his life and his passion and curiosities of breaking from traditional art forms. It goes into depth about his draw to the dangerous and interest in the body's limits when he was a young man but contrasts that with his peaceful life at his studio in the rolling hills of Topanga Canyon where he spent his last few years creating extravagant sculptures. The documentary presents to us his most dangerous work and some of Burden's comments on the pieces even though most of the time, on television interviews or interviews off the street, they are limited. At one point in the documentary, Burden says that he shouldn't have to explain his art because it explains itself to it's audience, and differently person-to-person. The documentary also goes into the frustration many people had with his works and performance art in general. The debate is still ongoing whether performance art is actually art. Although, the documentary definitely sways you to believing that it is because we see this man who was completely devoted to it all his life. This documentary delved into Burden's personal life as well and how his art reflected it. His wife played a large role in a few of his works when he was happily married but then began having very dark undertones when he cheated on his wife and divorced. I think this aspect of the documentary humanizes Burden in a way that media or news was never capable of. The entire film was very entertaining and it left you wanting to know more or learn more about him. If you are particularly curious about Burden and his work this is a great film that does well in incapsulating his life and influences in his art. You should watch this film if you're interested in performance art, or breaking barriers through art, this film and the life of Burden is very inspiring.
The double side of this man
Burden After watching the documentary, I find that Chris burden was an innovator of art. He has double side of personality. A crazy part of him likes to challenge the concept of art. He was using his body as the most impactful tools. He viewed himself as an art piece more than a person. So, he could abandon the limitation of being a human in modern society. He challenged moral, psychical pain, social orders, fear, anger and shame. He was so aggressively trying to experiments and exposes those human weakness to everyone. I could feel so much unsecure and threating in his performance arts. In fact, those negative emotion influenced him and brought craziness to him. He took hard drugs and carrying and firing a UZI all the time and viewed those behavior as arts. People around him are afraid of him because of his instability. He did, he finally brutally defeated those art critics and redefined the concepts of arts. Those who are viewed him as a clown were finally silenced because how philosophical and emotional Chris Burden's arts could bring to them. In fact, the other side, He proved he has talents on traditional art forms too. In fact, Chris burden never get out of his control. From the beginning to the end, he was always thinking as a sculptor. His goal was not going to really hurt himself but creating a moment of thinking. All his harmful performance arts were well prepared. When he lost his craziness in his late age, He was starting creating those great installations. Actually his works are all connected.