Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievements but also debating the controversies around his work.
Struck down by the Spanish Flu in 1918, aged just 28, in his short life Egon Schiele created over 3,000 drawings and paintings, self-portraits and nudes. An agent provocateur of the modernist era, he was a taboo-busting rebel whose art looks like it was made yesterday - self-obsessed, exhibitionist and unafraid to confront questions of sexuality and identity.
To mark the anniversary of Schiele's death a century ago, this film tells Schiele's dramatic story in his own words, using original letters and writings - many of them translated for the first time. The film celebrates his remarkable artistic achievements but also debates the controversies around his work.
His sexually frank images shocked early 20th-century Vienna and still challenge us today. But are these the images of empowered women in control - or figures of of voyeurism? And how do we view his images of young girls from our modern perspective? Schiele didn't just make groundbreaking art, he was also a new kind of artist, carefully crafting his own myth, pioneering the notion of the artist as personality and performer in a way that would influence generations of other cultural trailblazers. With contributions from Iggy Pop, Lily Cole and Jake Chapman, and visually striking dramatic reconstructions choreographed by acclaimed physical theatre company Gecko, the film conjures up the passionate, provocative world of Egon Schiele.
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Egon and Edith
Duration: 00:51
Music Played
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The Kills
DNA
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Hot Chip
Motion Sickness
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Massive Attack
Voodoo In My Blood
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Tom Waits
Temptation
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
The Proposition #1
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
The Proposition #3
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Iggy Pop & Jarvis Cocker
Red Right Hand
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The Kills
Tape Song
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Wide Lovely Eyes
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Sons and Daughters
Bee Song
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Massive Attack
Inertia Creeps
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Air
Alone in Kyoto
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Brian Eno
M386
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Air
Highschool Lover
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Beirut
Brandenburg
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Jack White
Love is Blindness
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B膬l膬nescu Quartet
Life and Death
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
We Real Cool
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
We No Who U R
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Executive Producer | Richard Bright |
Director | Teresa Griffiths |
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