{"id":17942,"date":"2016-07-07T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:15:11","slug":"unmistaken-hands-ex-voto-f-h-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/07\/07\/unmistaken-hands-ex-voto-f-h-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H., a film by the Brothers Quay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zql_lxCA6_k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/quays3.jpg\" alt=\"quays3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More from the Quays, and one of their most recent animated films. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zql_lxCA6_k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.<\/em><\/a> is a 25-minute piece made in 2013 for a commission from the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. The film is subtitled <em>Fragments and Motifs from the Writings of Felisberto Hern\u00e1ndez<\/em>, the &#8220;F.H.&#8221; of the title. Hern\u00e1ndez was a Uruguayan writer whose fabulist fiction has been praised by Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, and as with the Quays&#8217; films based on the work of Bruno Schulz and Robert Walser it probably helps to be acquainted with the source. In this case I&#8217;m not, although reading a description of Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s <em>Piano Stories<\/em>\u2014the only (?) collection in English\u2014I ought to remedy that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zql_lxCA6_k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/quays4.jpg\" alt=\"quays4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The content may be South American but the Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s fictional world is explored using the same accumulation of hints and allusions as in the films based on the work of European writers. The Quays&#8217; recent shorts have favoured HD video and anamorphic distortion, and that&#8217;s the technique adopted here. I can&#8217;t fault their animation or their mise-en-sc\u00e8ne but I keep hoping they might find a way to use video that has more of the grain and texture of their earlier films. I&#8217;m also hoping we might see these recent works gathered together in a disc collection in the near future. <em>Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.<\/em> is a recent arrival at YouTube, and may not be there for long so watch it while you can.<\/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>More from the Quays, and one of their most recent animated films. Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. is a 25-minute piece made in 2013 for a commission from the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. The film is subtitled Fragments and Motifs from the Writings of Felisberto Hern\u00e1ndez, the &#8220;F.H.&#8221; of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/07\/07\/unmistaken-hands-ex-voto-f-h-a-film-by-the-brothers-quay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H., 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,42,7],"tags":[399,220,8323,407,3910,2663],"class_list":["post-17942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-books","category-film","tag-brothers-quay","tag-bruno-schulz","tag-felisberto-hernandez","tag-italo-calvino","tag-robert-walser","tag-stanislaw-lem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942","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=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}