PERFECT IMPERFECTION (3 episodes)
ART DIRECTION | MOTION DESIGN
"Perfect Imperfection" gives an insight into the talent of some of the greatest icons of 20th-century popular culture, amongst them Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali & Andy Warhol. Each film reveals how their genius lies not in the perfection of their work but rather in its technical imperfections which set it apart and grant it legendary status.
Perfect Imperfection - MUHAMMAD ALI
“The Phantom Punch”
In February 1964 when a young boxer called Cassius Clay met four youths from Liverpool called the Beatles the world suddenly turned a little faster. Both were to impose themselves as huge iconic figures of popular culture in the years to come. Cassius Clay was to become Muhammad Ali, the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, and a spokesman for his people and his faith whose amiable wit and sporting exploits caught the attention of a whole generation. But « Perfect » was a word he would only rarely use...perhaps when talking about his own personal beauty....
Perfect Imperfection - BOB DYLAN
"The Non-Ticking Clock”
In just fourteen months in the middle of the 1960s, the singer/songwriter Bob Dylan released three albums that form perhaps the greatest rock trilogy of all time. With their mixture of howling guitars, Rimbaud and Blake influenced lyrics, social comment, and laconic style in « Bringin' It All Back Home » (1965), « Highway 61 Revisited » (1965), and « Blonde on Blonde » (1966) totally changed the face of popular music forever and made their author into a sort of messianic figure.....a role he was to flee from for many years to come! The Messiah is, after all, perfect and Dylan saw himself as no messiah!
Perfect Imperfection - ANDY WARHOL
"Andy’s Approximations”
Transforming himself first from a graphic artist in the advertising industry to a pop art guru, then to music producer and revolutionary filmmaker Andy Warhol dominated the art world of New York from the early 1960s onwards finally achieving cult status as a figure himself. This iconic status sometimes masks the brilliant but often intentionally flawed genius of his artistic gift. Warhol was no perfectionist…the artwork, he said "gives me something to do".
