For the series Once Upon an Artwork, children are paired with paintings from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. They’re given free rein to bring their own storytelling and interpretations to the work, and the results are given lively professional animations. In this instalment, two young friends named Dili and Amalia explore I and the Village (1911), a colourful, Cubist-inspired work by the Russian and French Jewish artist Marc Chagall, which draws on his early years in the Hasidic community of Vitebsk, in today’s Belarus.
Through the eyes of Dili and Amalia, however, the scene becomes a world where it’s day and night at the same time, memories become visible, everything is upside down and, as such, handstands become a cinch. The resulting short is immersive and playful, serving as a warm reminder of how art inevitably awakens the storyteller inside each of us, no matter our age. Video by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) The Renaissance art illusion that proved everything is a matter of perspective Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play A child demands calm from a chaotic world in a beguiling, haunting poem Other worlds pop in and out of view when the perspective shifts by degrees ‘Why do we need colours?’ A blind boy and a sighted girl experience a meadow Friendly tower cranes, grinning street signs, and other adventures in augmented reality When artworks dare audiences to break a cardinal museum rule Silence your lobster phone and melt into a Dalí-inspired dreamscape A propulsive ode to ‘the forgotten parents of film’
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