Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, Best Pick podcast, Tirtzah Bassel Canon in Drag
Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte's film Night of the Kings, Artist Tirtzah Bassel's Canon in Drag reimagines art history without the patriachy, Best Picks podcast on Oscar winners
Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte talks about his film Night of the Kings, set in a notorious Abidjan prison run by the inmates, in which he explores the West African tradition of the griot or storyteller.
Every year the Best Film Oscar is hotly contested and often the source of much debate and consternation. We speak to two podcasters from “Best Pick” which is aimed squarely at movie lovers and has reviewed and assessed every Best Film winner from the very first in 1929 to the most recent -Parasite. What have they learned on the course of their mammoth undertaking?
The artist Tirtzah Bassel wants to reimagine art history. She talks to Kirsty about her painting project – Canon in Drag - which recasts and repurposes famous artworks by swapping male figures with female figures, and makes childbirth a subject worthy of the artist’s eye.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Harry Parker
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Philippe Lacôte
Main image shows Bakary Koné in Night of the Kings
Tirtzah Bassel
Image credit: The Anatomy Lesson of Louise Boursier - 34”x42”, gouache on paper, 2021
The painting, dated 1632, just four years prior to the death of the famous midwife of Marie de Médicis, was a widely regarded scholar, educator, and the first woman to author a book on obstetrics, translated to German, Dutch, English and Latin. The painting was uncovered in the storage of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and depicts Boursier demonstrating non-invasive techniques of fetal care in utero. It is likely part of the commissioned project that produced The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (d. 1632) by Rembrandt, which shows men watching a male surgeon pull a tendon from a corpse.
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