A Voyage on the North Sea (1974)
Marcel Broodthaers
This film was made between November 1973 and January 1974 and based on the original copy of Analyse d’une Peinture, with additional material made up of photographs taken by the artist of yachts at sea in the port of Ostend. The film is presented as a book, with one page for the general title and page headings on each take or set of sequences: “Page 1”, “Page 2”, and so on. Slides were made in preparation for the book, and the film itself is presented as a slide show, being composed of nothing more than simple takes, with no action or camera movements.
This book uses the work of the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers to argue that the specifity of mediums, even modernist ones, can never be simply collapsed into the physicality of their support.