MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Profiles the late, world-renowned graphic artist Mauritius Escher (MC Escher, M.C. Escher) whose work is a curious blend of fact and fantasy, with mirror images and interlocking figures flowing from symmetrical shapes. Escher is 70 when this film is made.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Pan across stills of Escher's work. ECU of MC Escher, pull back.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Pan across drawing. One of his wonderful pieces, its starts as word & line & gradually changes to fish, birds & boats. Escher sits on the floor w/ a child & looks at the drawing.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
MS of Escher as he talks about the simplicity of the idea behind his visually complicated work. Escher & child, walking along a road. MS of Escher sitting near a harbor talking about his work. Child throws rocks into the water. Escher joins him.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Pan across CU of another of Escher's works.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
MS of Escher sitting near a harbor talking about his work. Child plays at the water's edge.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Pan across another of Escher's drawings. The drawing is of figures walking on impossible stairs. The camera spins around to give different angles. Drawing of lizards climbing on books. Centipede type creatures climbing more stairs.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Escher & child walking along a road.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Drawing of fish, fish change to birds. Escher sitting near a window, flipping through a book of his drawings. He explains the design. CU of the drawing.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Drawing of men on horses. MS of Escher holding the drawing, explaining it. Escher begins to explain his work moving from the flat to the 3 dimensional drawings. CU of a drawing of an impossible house. Other 3 dimensional drawings.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Drawing of a mobius strip. MS of Escher explaining the mobius strip. CU of hands demonstrating a true mobius strip. Escher's drawing of the strip w/ ant crawling on it.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Rare drawing w/ a bit of color. Escher talks about the fact that he doesn't like to work in color. He prefers black & white. He describes his work as "a space between art and mathematics."
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
MS of Escher flipping through a book of his drawings. He points out his drawing of a hand drawing another hand.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
CU of a drawing of a ribbon which becomes a face. More shots of drawings. His self-portrait reflected in a round ball. Escher looking at his prints in a book. Another self portrait w/ a skull in the pupil of the eye.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Escher walks along a cliff above a harbor. Zoom in on Escher.
MC Escher: Painter of Fantasy
Pan across the same drawing from the beginning. Boats now turn into fish, fish into horses, horses into birds, birds into cubes, cubes into a city, city into a chess board & back to the first image of words & lines.