The Vagina in Art and Cinema

One of the most controversial paintings of the world was painted in 1866 but is still extremely powerful and provocative. What are its influences on art and cinema? A video essay about L’Origine du Monde (Origin of the World) by Gustave Courbet.

Edit: Menno Kooistra
Made for VoorDeFilm

Films used:
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
Anatomie de l'enfer (Catherine Breillat, 2004)
Je vous salue, Marie ( Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)
9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom, 2004)
Hable Con Ella (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
Beyond Sleep (Boudewijn Koole, 2016)
The Invader (Nicolas Provost, 2011)

Music:
Mark Neil - 11 strANGE Ls
Chris Zabriskie - The Temperature of the Air on the Bow of the Kaleetan
Damiano Baldoni - Red Rose
http://freemusicarchive.org/

Link to the great BBC radio documentary about the painting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07pj824
And here’s the whole video of people looking at the painting in Musée d'Orsay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1S2QWnZQY&t=1s

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