Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto — a multi-featurette work consisting of 13 different statements of intent by the superlative Cate Blanchett — has now been made into a feature-length film. This highly anticipated crossover between the art and film world will premiere at Sundance Film Festival on 23 January. Covering futurists, dadaists and even Dogme 95, Rosefeldt’s movie is an interrogation of how artists use manifestos in order to ask key questions of who they are and how they want to change the world.
From Manifesto, directed by Julian Rosefeldt
In an exclusive interview for Sleek Issue #49, Rosefeldt writes of the decision to cast Blanchett was due not only to her remarkable two-time Oscar-winning talent, but that “it would be interesting to have these very masculine texts read by a woman.” By doing this she provides a necessary counter-balance to a male-dominated genre. Having received rave reviews from art critics when premiering at the ACMI in Melbourne and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, it will be interesting to see if film critics will see it in the same way when it premieres next week. Perhaps one day it will even come to a cinema near you.
Watch the trailer below: