Velvet dreams.
Through interviews with art critics, collectors and others enamoured of the kitsch genre of velvet painting, Urale explores its exoticising representations of the South Pacific. Sam Spade-style narration drives the film's quest to uncover the identity of a mystery beauty in a velvet painting.
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| Format: | DVD/Blu-Ray |
| Language: | English |
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[New Zealand] :
Top Shelf Productions : New Zealand On Air,
c2007.
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| Summary: | Through interviews with art critics, collectors and others enamoured of the kitsch genre of velvet painting, Urale explores its exoticising representations of the South Pacific. Sam Spade-style narration drives the film's quest to uncover the identity of a mystery beauty in a velvet painting. Velvet Dreams is a titillating introduction to the world of velvet painting, a genre most noted for its portraits of topless dusky maidens painted on black velvet. The film is narrated in mock Sam Spade style by a man so obsessed by a woman seen in a junk shop painting that he traverses the Pacific to find out who she was. We meet velvet artists and collectors in Seattle, Arthur Leetegs widow in Tahiti, art historians in Auckland and, finally 88 yearold velvet painter, adventurer and party boy, Charles McPhee. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced in 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, colour with b&w sequences ; 12 cm |
| Format: | DVD-R, PAL. |
| Production Credits: | Director, Sima Urale ; producers, Vincent Burke, Clifton May ; cinematography, Leon Narbey ; narrator, Jeffrey Thomas ; editor, Eric De Beus. |