Jonathan Livingston
This short film features a work by François Curlet entitled Speed Limit, the coming together of a Jaguar E-Type and a hearse welded together in the middle in reference to Hal Ashby’s cult comedy-drama Harold and Maude. The film follows the wanderings of an undertaker in a white shirt and tailcoat through the deserted countryside in his strange vehicle which he comes close to crashing several times in his quest for speed— ironically as if he is already in a vehicle anticipating the possibility of his demise. Both a racing and a death machine, this hybrid car may also recall Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, with its killer chasing innocent victims in his black car, with a similar form of funereal humour.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
from 27 Feb to 20 May 2013