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
July
Crispin Glover as The Green Man.
Inspiration: Henri Rousseau’s ‘The snake charmer’
Disaster: Snake bite, Malaria & sudden sickness.
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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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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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October
Suzi Amis as The Mythological Daphne.
Inspiration: The Pre-Raphaelites.
Disaster: Forest fires.
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January
Uma Thurman – As The World Collapses Around Her.
Inspiration ; Gustave Moreau, Disaster: Earthquake.
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December
Dylan Walsh as a window, Broken Window Broken Heart.
Inspiration: Reni Magritte, Disaster: House Damage.
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March
The Winds of March.
Inspiration: Van Gogh & king Lear.
Disaster: Death by Drowning.
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Timna body painting Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman as Water
Sheila Kelly as Fire.
Suzy Amis as Air
Dabney Coleman as King Lear
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
November
Ken Pogue in ‘The Tavern of Lost souls’.
Inspiration: Hieronymus Bosch.
Disaster: Plague, Pestilence, & fire.
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