The Critics
film Beijing uncut
Sarah Morris’ filming of the Beijing Olympics is an ‘erasure of ego’, Helen Nianias discovers
Sarah Morris has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Air de Paris (Paris) in March 2011
British-American filmmaker and painter Sarah Morris was given unlimited access to the behind-the- scenes activities of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and presents what she saw in the film Beijing, recently on show at London’s Barbican. Her experience of the city is shown
in a slew of images that go beyond the familiar shots of Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest Stadium, including children playing ping-pong, shop workers grinning at customers and families eating.
aj 02.12.10 Te film opens with a different type
of bird’s nest: hundreds of white- feathered, orange-billed geese waddling in a wonky pattern around a warehouse. A farmer’s knees are the only things in frame breaking up the floor of geese. It becomes apparent that Morris’ experience of the Olympics goes beyond the Games. Te film, according to Morris, is
about the ‘erasure of ego’, and this means anything or anyone can be a star. Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, the China Central Television Station >>
Top Still from Beijing Above right Stills from Midtown (1998) Right Alpine Coil Knots (2010)
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