Sculpt (film)

Synopsis

Sculpt is scarcely a social science fiction movie. It depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. Thought recording and fascination for the inner space are no longer fantasies but truly the object of a global market, which thrives on a quest for these moments of pure intensity, beauty experiences, thought, and obsessions.

The movie recounts how this ecosystem, equipped with new « traders », middlemen, buyers, « collectors » and « producers », is structured, and how this elite group sets up experiences whose unique object is a search for the masterpiece of this nature. No one suspects what is woven behind those « objects » as its counterpoint gets organized in parallel: a black market of impure experiences; a violent and dystopian world.

The movie follows the thoughts of a man whom we don’t know much about. He seems to be constantly developing the very concept of what experiencing beauty, thought, or obsession can be, despite the risks that the subjects are exposed to in the long term. Convinced that he can enact the rules of this new world, he will soon discover that the inner space limits and the market representing them are now just as one.

Project (Solo Exhibition at LACMA)

Sculpt, produced for LACMA, is Loris Gréaud’s first major exhibition project to take place on the west coast of the United States, as well as being his first feature-length film. It offers a unique experience to each viewer who sees it as an immersive environment.

“Gréaud is rethinking cinema in form, content, and its relationship to audience,” said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director.

For this presentation, LACMA’s Bing Theater will be reconfigured for only one audience member at a time. Each screening will therefore turn into and unique one-person experience, with the movie seemingly watching its visitor as it is watched. Screenings take place thanks to the generous loan of the film from Voodoo Queen Priestess Miriam Chamani who has permitted its distribution solely at LACMA. In this chrysalid state, the film is on loan for an unspecified time.

Distribution

A series of bootlegs and stolen clips from the movie will occasionally reappear via a black market, during illegal screenings throughout the world, as far as the Dark Net abyss. Sculpt will thus reach its main goal: to become one of the obsessions whose story it endeavored to describe.

Cast

• Willem Dafoe

• Charlotte Rampling

• Abel Ferrara

• The Residents

• Michael Lonsdale

• Pascal Greggory

• Claude Parent

• Betty Catroux

• Voodoo Queen Priestess Miriam Chamani

Press Review

• Claire Moulène and Jean-Max Colard, "Exclusivité : sur le tournage bondage de l'artiste Loris Gréaud", Les Inrocks, May 4, 2016. [1]

• Jaike Cigainero, "Behind the scene : on the set of Loris Greaud's new film « Sculpt »", Blouin Artinfo, May 4th, 2016. [2]

• Paul Devine, "Watch the trailer for unique and surreal Sculpt", The People's Movies, May 17, 2016. [3]

• Clement Deltenre, "Sculpt, le nouveau film de Loris Gréaud avec Willem Dafoe – Charlotte Rampling – Michael Lonsdale", JetSociety, May 19, 2016. [4]

• Julius Vietzen, "Die 15 bestern trailer der woche", Filmstarts, May 20, 2016.

• Domenico Olivero, "Sculpt – il nuovo film di Loris Gréaud ", Do@time, May 25th, 2016. [5]

• "Willem Dafoe et Charlotte Rampling dans le film de l'artiste Loris Gréaud", Numéro, June 1, 2016. [6]

• "Loris Gréaud : Sculpt at LACMA", Art Matter Magazine, June 1, 2016. [7]

• "Loris Gréaud at LACMA", French Culture, June 1st, 2016. [8]

• "« Sculpt » Film, a world of experiences, obsession and no boundaries : interview with Loris Gréaud.", Art Jobs, June 15th, 2016. [9]

• "Loris Gréaud – Sculpt", Tique Art Paper, June 18th, 2016. [10]

• Anna Marks, "Social sci-fi film « Sculpt » plays out humanity's dark obsessions", The Creators Project, June 30th, 2016. [11]

• "The making of « Sculpt » by Loris Gréaud", Purple TV, July 13th, 2016. [12]

• "An interview with Loris Gréaud on his first feature film « Sculpt » starring Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Rampling and Abel Ferrara", Purple Art, July 13th, 2016. [13]

• Charlotte Boutboul, "What is Loris Greaud preparing at LACMA?", Whitewall Magazine, July 20th, 2016. [14]

• "Loris Gréaud's Sculpt coming to LACMA Aug 16 looks like a horror movie for one", Things to do in LA, July 26th, 2016. [15]

• "Loris Gréaud's movie for one at LACMA", AICA, July 27th, 2016.

• "Loris Gréaud's movie for one at LACMA", The Art Newspaper, July 28th, 2016. [16]

• Ellen Gamerman, "A Willem Dafoe movie – with an audience of one", The Wall Street Journal, July 30th, 2016. [17]

• Efi Michalarou, "Loris Gréaud – Sculpt", Dream Idea Machine, August 1st, 2016. [18]

• "« Sculpt » : Abel Ferrara, Charlotte Rampling e Willem Dafoe nas alucinacoes de Gréaud", Maquina de escrever, August 6, 2016. [19]

• Sandra Cazenave, "« Sculpt » : Loris Gréaud voit rouge au LACMA", French Morning, August 9th, 2016. [20]

• Daisy Woodward, "First look : Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling in Sculpt", AnotherMag, August 9th, 2016. [21]

• "First look : Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling in Sculpt", Rebel Union Entertainment, August 10th, 2016. [22]

• Denis Paley, "Sculpt", Silent Magazine, August 12th, 2016. [23]

• "Randy Rose through Loris Gréaud's red lens", Nowness, August 12th, 2016. [24]

• Sandra Miska, "Loris Gréaud's experimental film starring Willem Dafoe, now at LACMA", Entertainment Voice, August 16th, 2016. [25]

• David Hudson, "Loris Gréaud's Sculpt", Fandor, August 16th, 2016. [26]

• Matt Stromberg, "ArtRx LA", Hyperallergic, August 16th, 2016. [27]

• Alex Moshakis, "Why Loris Gréaud and Willem Dafoe made a film few will see", The Guardian, August 16th, 2016. [28]

• "Film de Gréaud en el LACMA", La Tempestad, August 18th, 2016. [29]

• Carolina Miranda, "Datebook : A movie for one, a festival of film chosen by women", The Los Angeles Times, August 18th, 2016. [30]

• Catherine G. Wagley, "Voodoo curses, Care Bears, and Willem Dafoe : Loris Gréaud discusses his film « Sculpt », scored by The Residents", The Art Newspaper, August 19th, 2016. [31]

• Catherine G. Wagley, "Loris Gréaud : Sculpt", LA Weekly, August 20th, 2016. [32]

• Chris Gardner, "The most exclusive ticket in Hollywood", The Hollywood Reporter, August 26th 2016.

• Chris Gardner, "Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Rampling's « Sculpt » admitting one guest per screening", The Hollywood Reporter, August 26th 2016. [33]

• Christopher Ian Lutz, "The mise-en-abîme of filmmaker Loris Gréaud's Sculpt", Disinformation, September 2nd, 2016. [34]

• Frédéric Taddéï, "Social Club", Europe 1, September 7th, 2016. [35]

• "Loris Gréaud : the French artist one-at-a-time film project opens at LACMA", Flaunt Magazine, September 21st, 2016. [36]

• Charlotte Boutboul, "Sculpt - a movie by Loris Gréaud", Whitewall Magazine, October 6, 2016.