Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle: Wer ist das Monster - du oder ich?

Peter Schamoni

Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely

In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.

Un rêve plus long que la nuit

Niki de Saint Phalle

Laura Duke Condominas, Laurence Bourqui

"In this heady, phantasmagoric fairy tale, a young girl comes face to face with a friendly dragon and a magnanimous witch. Upon the witch granting the girl’s wish to become a young woman, this surrealist chronicle follows the precocious Camélia on a series of quests in pursuit of love. Niki de Saint Phalle’s sophomore film revels in the sexual decadence that defined the 1970s zeitgeist, showcasing scenes of debauched harems and totemic worship of phallic sculptures. An astounding piece of directorial bravery, UN RÊVE PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT confirms Saint Phalle’s wicked yet earnest pleasure in excavating the underlying perversions at play within the romantic quiet of fairy tales." - Anthology Film Archives

Daddy

Peter Whitehead, Niki de Saint Phalle

Mia Martin, Rainer Diez

Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint Phalle’s films, the flick combines autobiography with imagination, mixing erotic scenes of incest with a reverse of energy as the female character humors the daddy figure. Saint Phalle narrates the film, offering an almost psycho-analytical explanation of its content and explains the different inexplicable.

The Travelling Companion

Niki de Saint Phalle

A dazzling, inventive, and rarely-screened fairy tale from the feminist artist.

HON

François De Menil

Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely

Filmic portrait of Niki de Saint Phalle's HON, a temporary indoor sculpture installation for the Moderna Museet of Stockholm.

Screen Test [ST292]: Niki de Saint Phalle

Andy Warhol

Niki de Saint Phalle

The artist and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle is filmed against the sparkly background of the Factory. She looks elegant, solemn, and slightly sad. Her large-eyed gaze seems to avoid direct engagement with the camera; towards the end of the roll, she strokes her chin pensively.

Das Prinzip Dada

Marina Rumjanzewa

Pussy Riot, Terry Gilliam

My Life

Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle presents and comments on her work from the early 1960s.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Andy Warhol

Eric Andersen, Paul America

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Niki de Saint Phalle

François De Menil, Monique Alexandre

Niki de Saint Phalle, Pontus Hulten

François de Menil and Monique Alexandre's short portrait of artist Niki de Saint Phalle, shot in 16mm, 1982.