‘Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto’

In this dream pairing that you never even knew you needed, artist and director Julian Rosefeldt teams up with actor Cate Blanchett for a 13-channel video installation in which she reads famous artists’ manifestos. To say that Blanchett is simply reading the manifestos, though, would undersell how incredibly she inhabits each fictional character (whether as a scientist, a puppeteer or a homeless man) as she spouts reedited versions of writings from the likes of Claes Oldenburg, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Sol LeWitt and Wassily Kandinsky. While the videos initially seem completley separate, a sudden moment of synchronization will leave you reanalyzing how the films fit together.