Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past (2018–2024)
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Transfigurations: A Weekend with David Lebrun. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In-person: filmmaker David Lebrun.
David Lebrun’s latest project is a large-scale, multi-year work in progress to create a transformative encounter between the present and the past through an immersive experience with change itself. Beginning with high-resolution images of artifacts, art objects and architectural details from different eras and photographed at various sites around the world, including museums, churches and temples, Lebrun animates the changes in their forms across millenia. The results are an awe inspiring tour of human ingenuity, imagination, belief and craft as it expressed itself from the Paleolithic period through the Middle Ages, and from Mesoamerica to Europe, the Middle East and Indian Asia.
Total running time: 67 min.
45 Handaxes, Lower to Middle Paleolithic (600,000 to 40,000 BP)
2020. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
137 Coins, Greece via Rome to Gaul (4th to 1st C. BCE)
2020. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
Cycladic and Anatolian Figurines (3300–2000 BCE)
2021. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
91 Spouted Vessels, Iran (3200 BCE–224 CE)
2021. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
65 Churches and Cathedrals / Early Romanesque to Late Gothic/France (1050-1500 CE)
2021. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
American Gods Triptych (2000 BCE–1521 CE)
2024. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
The Hoysalesvara Temple / Karnataka, India (circa 1250 CE)
2012. DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun
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