Free Thinking - Banksy + Chris Marker
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Samira Ahmed discusses the ownership of street art with Mary McCarthy, Director of MM Contemporary Arts; Professor Lionel Bently, barrister and copyright expert on intellectual property, and street artist and gallery owner, Pure Evil. Ex-ITV CEO Stewart Purvis on the rise of indie news organisation Vice. Plus artist Jeremy Millar, film critic Chris Darke and Habda Rashid, Assistant Curator at The Whitechapel Gallery discuss French film maker Chris Marker's life and work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.4 | Tonight, we explore the newsmaking of Vice Media, challenging traditional news organisations with its frontline war coverage and apparent ability to make money. |
| 0:50.8 | How do we assess the intellectual property rights of street art as Banksy condemns an auction of his work in London this weekend? |
| 0:58.3 | But first, a journey through time and place with Chris Marker, the reclusive French artist and filmmaker of such films as La Jette and Sansolet. |
| 1:07.6 | Playing an audio film clip of a Marker film is complicated. The English version of Sans |
| 1:12.9 | Solet or Sunless begins with a written quote on screen from T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday. Because I know |
| 1:20.3 | that time is always time and place is always and only place, and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place. |
| 1:30.3 | Then comes speech which is not a voiceover because the screen is black. |
| 1:35.3 | The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in |
| 1:39.3 | in 1965. |
| 1:41.3 | Then film of Icelandic children on a road. |
| 1:45.0 | He said that for him it was the image of happiness, |
| 1:47.7 | and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images. |
| 1:51.1 | But it never worked. He wrote me. |
| 1:54.1 | One day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film, |
| 1:57.1 | with a long piece of black leader. |
| 1:59.3 | If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black. |
| 2:04.2 | Then a fighter plane descending through the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, |
| 2:08.9 | a ferry from a Japanese island, the hands of elderly Japanese ladies on the rail |
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