{"id":16802,"date":"2015-05-19T02:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16802"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:19:02","slug":"inventorium-of-traces-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/19\/inventorium-of-traces-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventorium of Traces, a film by the Brothers Quay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vk.com\/video70335180_166530447\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"inventorium.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/inventorium.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Inventorium of Traces<\/em> was made in 2009 but it&#8217;s taken a while to make its way out of Poland in any complete form. In this 25-minute video piece the Quays turn their attention to Lancut Castle, a celebrated Polish stately home, and the former residence of the Potocki family. Of the latter, Jan Potocki would have an understandable attractions for the Quays being the author of <em>The Saragossa Manuscript<\/em>, a book that&#8217;s briefly alluded to when the Saragossa region is glimpsed on a map. The first half of the film shows visitors to the Castle being observed by statues and paintings, one of which is a portrait of Jan Potocki; in the second half, night falls, the building is locked, and some typical Quay business begins with flickering light and spectral animation. The music is by Krzysztof Penderecki, a composer the Quays used a year later for their superb animation, <em>Maska<\/em>, and also the composer of the soundtrack to the\u00a0Wojciech Has adaptation of Potocki&#8217;s novel. The quality of the uploaded video<em> <\/em>could be better (the frame seems to be cropped) but it&#8217;s good enough for Quay obsessives. Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/vk.com\/video70335180_166530447\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-quay-brothers-archive\/\">The Quay Brothers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventorium of Traces was made in 2009 but it&#8217;s taken a while to make its way out of Poland in any complete form. In this 25-minute video piece the Quays turn their attention to Lancut Castle, a celebrated Polish stately home, and the former residence of the Potocki family. Of the latter, Jan Potocki would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/19\/inventorium-of-traces-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inventorium of Traces, a film by the Brothers Quay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,42,7],"tags":[399,3584,1638,2663,219],"class_list":["post-16802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-books","category-film","tag-brothers-quay","tag-jan-potocki","tag-krzysztof-penderecki","tag-stanislaw-lem","tag-wojciech-has"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}