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- You are here: Home > ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER – THE ART OF BODYBUILDING
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
Babeth M. VanLoo
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Raymond Mondini
Cinematography:
Simon Edery, Babeth M. VanLoo
Editing:
Babeth M. VanLoo
Producer:
Babeth M. VanLoo
Production:
Film Art Amsterdam
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER - THE ART OF BODYBUILDING consists of unprocessed, original 16mm material which the director herself shot during the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding contest in the 1970s. VANLOO filmed Arnold Schwarzenegger, then Mister Universe, around 1975/1976. In her art installation “Sculpting the Body” she presented him as a living work of art: some of the poses were reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker”. This art installation is unfortunately lost, but the original recordings have been used for a new cut. In this new film we see footage of an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger by Raymond Mondini, recorded just after the Mr Olympia competition in 1976, combined with footage from the competition itself.
Director:
BABETH M. VANLOO (1948, Netherlands) studied painting and design in Aachen and performance and sculpture under the supervision of Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf. She also holds a master's degree in film from San Francisco Art Institute. VanLoo has made a number of short films about other artists, including Andy Warhol and Beuys, both of whom she has collaborated with. Her films often deal with art, social engagement and spirituality. In 2000, she founded the first Buddhist television broadcasting channel in the Western world and she is the director of the International Buddhist Film Festival.
Contact:
EYE EXPERIMENTAL
Festivals, awards:
International Film festival Rotterdam 2020 / IndieLisboa 202 0/ Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2020
«I was sitting out in the audience, and I saw you and Franco and that really turned me on tremendously… ». Almost fifty years have passed and yet no one could blame Raymond Mondini, neither for this nor for mentioning Leni Riefenstahl. Because, in the end, what Schwarzenegger was doing could be seen as continuously mise-en-scène-ing. Not someone else, an alien beauty, but his own body, for him and us to adore it. BABETH M. VANLOO uses on- and offstage material with Schwarzenegger in order to make us accomplices of the savvy-yet-juicy Mondini. Hand in hand, the two species of the bodybuilder’s on-camera appearances, the show and the interview, eventually lead to one firm idea – performativity never stops for our pin-up Schwarzenegger, there’s always at least one voyeur left; himself.” (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2020)