EDUARDO PAOLOZZI: Archaeology of a future

A feature documentary, currently in production, featuring the late artist Eduardo Paolozzi. His visionary, hypnotic voice guides us through a cinematic landscape of war, technology, fascism, and art, kaleidoscopically reconstructing the past in the present. 

Supported by: Ffilm Cymru, Paolozzi Foundation, British Library, NESTA, Scottish National Gallery, Tate, Pallant House Gallery and V&A.

Archival trailer, edited by Gilly Booth, graphics by Paul Plowman, soundtrack by Mike Silver & Dino by Harmonia, sound mix by Harmonic Kinetic.

… the paradox of creativity is that it is always preceded or simultaneously accompanied by, an act of destruction, which is both real and symbolic. The very process of collage makes this inevitable. The word collage is inadequate as a description because concept should include; damage, erase, destroy, deface, and transform all parts of a metaphor for the creative act itself. Thus the creative act of collage is a method of taking the world apart and reassembling it in the order that one understands, and that order is ruled by one’s emotions, intuition and intellect. That is Surrealism. And that is perception.

Eduardo Paolozzi