The Painting (1999)

The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the oldworld remnants of downtown Bern Switzerland with details from a 15thcentury altarpiece The Martyrdom of St Hippolytus The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the oldworld remnants of downtown Bern Switzerland with details from a 15thcentury altarpiece The Martyrdom of St Hippolytus The painting shows the calm nearnaked saint in a peaceful landscape a frozen moment before four horses tear his body to pieces while an audience of soigné nobles look on in the movies revised version Beavers gives it a comparably rarefied psychodramatic jolt juxtaposing shots of Gregory Markopoulos bisected by shafts of light with a torn photo of himself and the recurring image of a shattered windowpane J Hoberman The Village Voice