Where The Heart Is

John Boorman’s Film

Murals and body painting Tableau Vivant.

The character of Chloe, the artist, is drawn from Timna Woollard. Timna developed a technique of painting bodies into landscapes and photographing them.” John Boorman

shots of trompe l’oeil murals and body-painting are little short of breathtaking’ Christopher Tookey The Sunday Telegraph

Rousseau style mural, for July

detail rousseau style mural of a jungle foliage with snake
detail rousseau style mural of a jungle foliage with snake

July

Crispin Glover as The Green Man.

Inspiration: Henri Rousseau’s ‘The snake charmer’

Disaster: Snake bite, Malaria & sudden sickness.

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rousseau style jungle foliage with christen glover as the snake charmer tableau vivant

Tableux Vivant

In the John Boorman’s film, ‘Where The Heart Is’, Suzi Amis plays an artist who graduates from college with a 16mm film involving trompe l’oeil body painting. The artist and her siblings are kicked out of home by their father and move into a derelict house. She is then commissioned to produce a calendar for an insurance company called, ‘Insure Yourself Against Acts Of God’. She incorporates her family and friends into these paintings, and uses the walls of the house as her canvas. Thus changing their environment into a fantasy world.

September

Joanna Cassidy as Eve & The Apple

Inspiration: Lucas Cranach – Paolo Uccello – Henri Rousseau.

Disaster: Tornado & Food Poisoning. Insurance

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rousseau style landscape with eve and the snake tableau vivant

May

Emma in a door in a landscape.

Inspiration: Timna’s muse Emma Woollard.

Disaster That youth fades away – Old Age Insurance.

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painterly landscape mural with body painted women tableau vivant

October

Suzi Amis as The Mythological Daphne.

Inspiration: The Pre-Raphaelites.

Disaster: Forest fires.

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landscape on fire mural with tree body painted women tableau vivant

January

Uma Thurman – As The World Collapses Around Her.

Inspiration ; Gustave Moreau, Disaster: Earthquake.

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gustave moreau style mural with Uma thurman as grecian godess tableau vivant

December

Dylan Walsh as a window, Broken Window Broken Heart.

Inspiration: Reni Magritte, Disaster: House Damage.

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reni magritte surreal style mural with broken window tableau vivant

March

The Winds of March.

Inspiration: Van Gogh & king Lear.

Disaster: Death by Drowning.

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van gogh style mural tableau vivant

April

Christopher Plummer on the Mantelpiece.

Inspiration: John Martin’s engravings for Paradise Lost.

Disaster: Flood & Tempest. Insurance Company’s Calendar - Insure Yourself Against Acts Of God

john martin style mural paridise lost flood tableau vivant with christopher plumber

November

Ken Pogue in ‘The Tavern of Lost souls’.

Inspiration: Hieronymus Bosch.

Disaster: Plague, Pestilence, & fire.

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hieronymus bosch style mural the tavern of lost souls tableau vivant
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