M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity: Watch the Free Artwork Documentary On-line (with Voicing from Stephen Fry)

As beforehand talked about right here on OC, the movie distributor Kino Lorber has been quietly making full artwork movies obtainable to stream on YouTube and its personal web site. Final week, they uploaded to YouTube the documentary, Past the Seen: Hilma Af Klint. This week, they’ve adopted up with M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity, which they describe as follows:

M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity is the story of world well-known Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher (1898-1972). Equal components historical past, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait provides us the person by means of his personal phrases and pictures: diary musings, excerpts from lectures, correspondence and extra are voiced by British actor Stephen Fry, whereas Escher’s woodcuts, lithographs, and different print works seem in each unique and playfully altered type. Two of his sons, George (92) and Jan (80), reminisce about their dad and mom whereas musician Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) talks about Escher’s rediscovery within the Seventies. The movie seems to be at Escher’s legacy: one can see tributes to his work in motion pictures, in fiction, on posters, on tattoos, and elsewhere all through our tradition; certainly, few high-quality artists of the twentieth century can lay declare to such well-liked enchantment.

You will discover M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity listed in our assortment of Free Documentaries, a subset of our bigger assortment 4,000+ Free Films On-line: Nice Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & Extra.

To observe extra free-to-stream Kino Lorber movies, click on right here.

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