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Maids of Honor (1975)
Directed by Juan Downey
· 20m
Las Meninas is a brilliant essay on illusionism, mirrors and perception in art, life and video, articulated by Downey as a subjective interpretation of Velasquez's eponymous Baroque masterpiece. Through a theatrical reenactment of the painting's pictorial tableau and a re-articulation of its complex perspectival structure, Downey brings to life the spatial dynamics, illustrating the psychological tension of the relationship between viewer and subject. Placing Las Meninas in a historical context, Downey relates the painting's thematics to Spain's economic and political systems of the late 17th century.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Juan Downey
- Writer
- George Kubler, Juan Downey, Michel Foucault
Details
- Original title
- Las Meninas
- Release date
- 1975-01-01
- Runtime
- 20m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English