Stolen art. Une collection particulière

Stolen art. A private Collection

Simon Backes, Belgium, 2008, Beta-Digital, Format diffusion : 1.33 (SD), 57 minutes

Whatever happened to Pavel Novak?
This Czech artist vanished into thin air in 1978, following the scandal raised by his New York exhibition entitled ‘Stolen Art’.

Our investigation takes us from Washington to Saint-Petersburg, from Paris to Prague, on the trail of this mysterious ‘re-appropriationist’ painter, whose work involved paintings by Van Gogh, Courbet, Rembrandt, or Malevich…

• Directed by: Simon Backes
• Screenplay: Simon Backès
• Photography: Simon Backès
• Sound: Hichame Alaouie
• Image editing: Manu de Boissieu
• Sound editing: Laora Bardos & Thomas Baudour
• Mixing: Manu de Boissieu
• Languages: FR
• Subtitles: FR, EN
• Available formats: Beta Digital, Digital, DVD, Blu-Ray
• With: Kimberley Jones, Barbara Lorey, Karel Michalik, Olga Uhrova, Ernst van de Wetering, Olga Musakova, Pr. Daniele Donde & Achille Bonito Oliva
• Production: La Parti Production
• Coproduction: Alea Jacta & CBA . Produit avec l’aide du Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française et des télédistributeurs wallons. Développé avec le soutien du MEDIA Programme of the European Community
• Coproduction workshop: CBA
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