The Rape of the Sabine Women (film)

The Rape of the Sabine Women (film)

"The Rape of the Sabine Women" is an art film by Eve Sussman, which had its world premiere on 2006-11-26 at the 47th International Thessaloniki Film Festival.cite web | title = World Premiere: The Rape of the Sabine Women by Eve Sussman | work = Press release | publisher = International Thessaloniki Film Festival | date = 2006-11-26 | url = http://www.filmfestival.gr/2006/index.php?page=newsdetails&ln=en&box=news&id=100 | accessdate = 2007-02-25 ]

Eve Sussman, an artist and movie producer, was born in England, to American parents, in 1961. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury and Bennington College. Besides the United States, and the Whitney Museum of American Art amongst other institutions her work has been exhibited in Turkey, Austria, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia, France, Poland, and Canada. [cite web
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The dialogue free film revisits the eponymous classical story in a variety of modern contexts.cite news|title=“The Rape of the Sabine Women”: Present at an Empire’s Corrupted Birth|publisher=New York Times|author=Roberta Smith|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/arts/design/21sabi.html|date=February 25, 2007]

References

See also

* 89 seconds at Alcázar
* Las Meninas
* Tableau vivant

External links

* [http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_streetlevel.php Rape of the Sabine Women] An early cut of the film was exhibited at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, July 6, 2006 – Sept. 24, 2006.
* [http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/exhibitions/sussman.html Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds at Alcázar] ". Marquette University. Retrieved 07 December 2007


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