: Rather than a standard biography, Smolders "chops up" the documentary format, intercutting original footage of the painter's works with staged scenes of nudity, sex, and extreme violence.
Le titre semble donc être une référence codée – peut‑être le 39ᵉ jour de l’automne 1991, le 39ᵉ plan d’un storyboard, ou simplement le numéro d’une bande‑démo d’un collectif anonyme. L’absence d’auteur identifié renforce le caractère anonyme et subversif du texte. pensees et visions d 39-une tete coupee -1991- ok.ru
: Smolders intercuts Wiertz's grand, gore-filled canvases with live-action scenes, including controversial documentary footage of a pig slaughter and softcore imagery. : Rather than a standard biography, Smolders "chops
The story, as passed down through grainy VHS bootlegs and unreliable festival catalogues, was this: In 1991, Fournier, a 24-year-old philosophy student turned filmmaker, was obsessed with the guillotine. Not the bloody spectacle of it, but the interval between the fall of the blade and the final flicker of consciousness. She had read the infamous 1905 account by Dr. Gabriel Beaurieux, who claimed that the severed head of a condemned man named Languille opened its eyes twice when his name was called, seconds after decapitation. She had read the infamous 1905 account by Dr
: The title is derived from a scene that narrates a guillotine execution with graphic detail and sound effects.