Picasso’s Last Stand & Minotauromaquia
Picasso’s Last Stand & Minotauromaquia
Picasso’s Last Stand
Randall Wright｜2018｜59 minutes
Picasso’s Last Stand portrays the last decade of the famously reclusive artist through anecdotes from his family and close associates. In the 1960s, Pablo Picasso’s prominence seemed to diminish, coinciding with revelations about his private life. Stigmatised as an artist past his prime, Picasso recognised the power of film and television to reshape his public image. This documentary shows his engagement with the new visual culture of his era, featuring excerpts from his televised interviews alongside conversations with Sir John Richardson, Picasso’s biographer, and his granddaughter, Diana Widmaier-Picasso. Picasso’s Last Stand is a revelatory documentary about an artist in old age who, despite declining health, is determined to create some of his most prolific and candid works.
About the Director
Randall Wright is an acclaimed filmmaker for the BBC and has directed several critically acclaimed television films, including Hockney (2014), a documentary on David Hockney, which premiered at the London Film Festival and subsequently won the FIFA award, and Lucian Freud: A Painted Life (2012), for which he received Emmy and BAFTA nominations. Wright is the founder of the Kew Literary Festival.
Minotauromaquia
Juan Pablo Etcheverry｜2004｜10 minutes
Minotauromaquia (2004) is a claymation short film starring a lively cast of people, characters, and animals from Pablo Picasso’s most famous paintings. After visiting Pompeii in the late 1920s, Picasso began to see the Minotaur as his alter ego, embodying the myth of untamed male virility that is also subject to weaknesses. This exciting short film examines Picasso’s conflicted self-image—an aspect which looms large over his artistic legacy—presented as a thrilling game of cat and mouse where the artist is pursued by the monstruous beast of his own imagination.
Juan Pablo Etcheverry. Minotauromaquia, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Ignacio Benedeti Cinema
Juan Pablo Etcheverry. Minotauromaquia, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Ignacio Benedeti Cinema
About the Director
Juan Pablo Etcheverry (b. 1975, Uruguay) is a self-taught stop-motion animator based in Montevideo. His first published short film was made for British indie band Radiohead’s The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time (2004), a collection of 24 short films by independent filmmakers invited by the band to respond to their music. Minotauromaquia (2004) is Etcheverry’s best-known work and received nominations for the Goya Awards and the European Film Awards. It was selected by the Museum of Modern Art for the international film series From Doodles to Pixels: Over a Hundred Year of Spanish Animation.
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Image at top: Randall Wright. Picasso's Last Stand, 2018. Photo: Courtesy of Randall Wright
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