At Eternity's Gate - Cinema and Art Quiz

AT ETERNITY’S GATE
A CINEMA & ART QUIZ
Abhinav Choudhary
16 February 2020
Eclectiza ‘20 - TIET, Patiala

16 / 02 / 2020 ABHINAV CHOUDHARYAT ETERNITY’S GATE | ECLECTIZA ’20
WRITTEN ROUND 1
• 5 Questions – +10/0
• All the questions are about a certain theme.

1
• For the look of this 2017 film, the director sent a couple of photos by the French
photographer, Lise Sarfati to the cinematographer. Lise took some great portraits of
young women in convenience stores, on street corners at dusk.“They’re very pretty but
also very simple.They’re very evocative.” said Sam Levy.
• The director then sent Sam paintings from Sacramento based painters - Wayne Thiebaud
and Gregory Kondos.The director described these as having very “dense, masculine
pastels.”These paintings gave Sam a clue on the colors and scenery of Sacramento, where
the film takes place.
• Which film’s look is being talked about?

1

2
• The shot used was when the director was 26, making her first film La Pointe Courte in
1954. In the iconic photo, she is standing on the shoulders of a technician while looking
into the camera on the beach in Sete, in the Southeast of France.
• A festival paid homage to the shot in a beautiful manner.
• “This photo from the set sums up everything about _____ _____: her passion, aplomb,
and mischievousness,” festival organizers said. She had the “ingredients of a free artist,
forming a recipe she never stopped improving.”
• Which director is being talked about here? How did the festival page homage?

3
• For nearly five years Arizanov, a Macedonian, and his Indian co-founder, Sanchit Sethi, have
been pursuing an unlikely goal: to bring a version of Japan’s short-stay “love hotels”,
designed for urgent amorous encounters, to India.
• In 2018, the company added its 800th hotel partner in February and clocked up $3m in
total sales.The startup is helping to drive a more couple-friendly attitude across the
Indian hotel industry – even if society is still catching up.
• While talking about the company, Michael Safi of The Guardian titled the article “____ __
___________: arrival of the 'love hotel' divides India.”
• Which company was being talked about in the article? Complete the title of
the article.

4
• Iranian state television broadcast a screenshot from the movie ‘____ ____ ______' as
evidence that a CIA officer who was reportedly involved in the assassination of a top
Iranian general had been killed in a plane crash.
• The image used by Iran's Channel One shows American actor Frederic Lehne, who
portrays a character based on real-life CIA agent Michael D'Andrea in the film.
• Where did they grab the screenshot from?

4

5
• AileenWuornos was a former Florida prostitute, who was executed in 2002 at age 46
after being convicted for murdering six men. She was the 10th woman put to death in the
United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977.
• The actress gained 30 pounds and wore facial prosthetics for the part.The actress also
said that she read thatWuornos never removed her shirt, even when prostituting herself,
and that was part of why she put on weight for the part — to embody the murderer's
insecurity and "scars" about her own body.
• Which South-African actress played the role of Aileen? Which movie is this?

5

1
• Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig

2
• Agnes Varda, Cannes Film Festival Poster

3
• StayUncle, Lust inTranslation from Lost inTranslation by Sofia Coppola

4
• Zero DarkThirty by Kathryn Bigelow

5
• CharlizeTheron, Monster(2003) by Patty Jenkins

INFINITE BOUNCE/INFINITE POUNCE 1
• 11 Questions – +10/0 on bounce, +10/-5 on pounce

1
• When this facility in East Germany closed after the fall of communism, the locals were
both relieved and concerned.“Finally people could hang out their laundry without it
getting covered in ____.” said one of the plants employees.
• Now, 30 years after the closing of the building, it was opened again but will house
contemporary art. It is being operated by a German artist, Pablo Wendel who are aiming
to power the building using locally sourced biomass.
• The company owned by Pablo aims to restore the previous purpose of the building but
by using art instead.They are aiming to produce, what Pablo calls kunststrom which
stands for art ___________.
• What was the original purpose of this building?

1
• Power Station

2
• Up until December 1941, almost all TIME covers featured a close-cropped, solemn
portrait of a man. However, that month the editors prepared for something quite
different.
• The editors, too wanted to address an issue and hence commissioned artists from a
company to draw a black and white portrait of someone.The accompanying story was
scheduled to run on December 29 and would anoint someone the “Mammal-of-the-Year.”
• But something else happened during that time and the editors had to address that issue.
Manfred Gottfried, the magazine’s managing editor, said “We had thirty-six hours in which
to remake the magazine.”
• TIME still ran a 1,400-word story on the previous subject and explored it as a source of
distraction and comfort.
• Who was the original subject of that edition? Why was it changed?

2
• Dumbo, Pearl Harbor

3
• When this person died in 1938, he was buried in Père Lachaise in the city where he was
born and lived his entire life. A bust of the person by Italian artist Renato Carvillani was
installed in 1954, adding his distinctive bearded face, which appeared in many of his works,
to his grave.
• His grave sits in a quite corner and is in a terrible condition.The person’s great-great-
granddaughter Pauline Duclaud-Lacoste is leading the charge to renovate the grave and
to make people aware about his works.
• Whose grave is this, once portrayed by a certain Krishna Pandit Bhanji in
2011?

3

3
• Georges Méliès

4
• In 1964, Chuck Adamson, a detective was locked in an obsessive pursuit of Neil McCauley,
a career criminal from Chicago who craved the big scores. McCauley had been engulfed
in the life of crime from a young age, serving three stints in jail by the time he was 20.
• Subsequently, he spent the majority of his adult life in and out of prison, as he’d always fall
back into old habits upon being released from the pen.
• Chuck and Neil both had great admiration for each other. In an interview, someone
elaborated on the relationship between the detective and the robber.
“Chuck had respected the guy’s professionalism — he was a really good thief, which is exciting to a detective, and he
tried to keep any risks to a minimum — but at the same time he was a cold-blooded sociopath who’d kill you as soon
as look at you — if necessary…”
“Chuck was going through some crises in his life, and they wound up having one of those intimate conversations you
sometimes have with strangers.There was a real rapport between them; yet both men verbally recognized one would
probably kill the other.”
• What was inspired from this relationship between Chuck and Neil?

4
• Michael Mann’s Heat

5
• Carlos Huante is a designer and has worked on several different projects as a creature
designer.While working with a certain Canadian on his project, he was allowed to go full
abstract.
• “He gave me two days to go-nuts and I gave him two pages of little thumbnails of ideas that
were ______ that were really far-out concepts. One was like folding paper. It would constantly be
unfolding itself which is the way it would walk and move. It was a giant, it wasn’t necessarily
paper but it felt like it.There were no eyes on it and no face, eight feet tall and it looks like it has
multi-limbs but no limbs per se.And that’s how far off I went for some of the ideas.”
• Carlos again partnered up with the Canadian for a sequence in his next project for which
he had to make old models of something.
• Who is the Canadian? Which project is being talked about in the second
bullet?

5
• DennisVilleneuve, Arrival

6
• The inspiration for this iconic line comes from a comment made by the former Israel
prime minister Ariel Sharon during the Six-DayWar of 1967.
• Apparently, after winning a battle in Aqaba, Sharon went spear diving, shot some fish, ate
them with his crew, and said: "we're eating their fish," as if saying "we got here, destroyed
everything, and now we're also taking your fish.“
• With the line, the screenwriter also wanted to give the same message to the audience –
we’ve killed them, and now we’re taking their _____.
• The writer stated that he wanted to underlineVietnamWar's West Coast touch, mainly
because “our culture was centered at this time in California, with the hippies and
everything.”
• Which iconic line is this?

6
• Charlie Don’t Surf from Apocalypse Now

7
• Charlie Don’t Surf is also an art installation by the Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan. It
shows a boy sitting on a desk with his back turned to the viewer.
• Cattelan’s satirical approach to art has resulted in him being frequently labelled as a joker
or a prankster of the art world. His most famous works include America, which is a fully
functioning toilet made of 18-karat solid gold and La Nona Hora which depicts a berobed
Pope John Paul II, moments after being knocked over by an errant meteorite.
• Cattelan again made headlines with his recent artwork. He had been working on the idea
for about a year and first created versions in bronze and resin. But somehow they were
lacking according to him.“In the end, one day I woke up and I said ‘the ______ is
supposed to be a ______.’”
• What is this artwork which has stirred some controversy recently?

7

7
• Duct taped a banana to the wall

8
• In the quest to photograph the dark side of the moon, NASA commissioned ten Planar
50mm f/0.7 still lenses from the German optical manufacturer Carl Zeiss AG.When one
perfectionist American came to know about these lenses, he ordered 3 of them for his
new work.
• These lenses were meant for still photography and required serious modifications for the
intended use.Another problem that they faced was the low field of depth of these lenses
which meant that the subjects were to be placed at specific distances and their
movement had to be minimal.
• The project drew heavy inspiration from the landscapes of Jean-Antoine Watteau and the
portrait styles ofThomas Gainsborough.
• For what purpose were these cameras used?

8

8
• Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick

9
• An infamous theory about a film relates it to the brutal murder of a 16 year old.The first
clue according to the theory is the name of the protagonists, Satsuki which means May in
the local language and Mei, both of which hint toward the time of the incident.
• The film also takes place in Samaya which was the town where the incident happened.
Another hint that relates the film to the incident is the mode of transport used in the
film where one of the stops literally translate to ‘Path to the Grave’.
• Although the studio denied any relation, people still try to connect it’s beloved mascot to
the god of death.
• Which film is being discussed above?

10
• My NeighbourTotoro

11
• ___ _____ __ _____ is a documentary by the Australian filmmaker Cameron Ford in
which Cameron along with 4 of his friends attempt to cycle 2600 Kms, from Oklahoma
to California.
• Travelling through the rural towns and communities of Middle America, the group seeks
to understand how the country has changed since the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s,
exploring the wealth gap, religion, immigration and the American Dream.
• What is the name of the documentary which indicates the direct tribute to a
1939 work of fiction?

11
• The Bikes of Wrath

WRITTEN ROUND II
• In the following slides you’ll find a director dissing on his
peers and some actors.
• Identify the director being dissed on. +10
• Identify the director dissing. +10

1
• I hate _____ _____ physically, I dislike that kind of man.That particular combination of
arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge. Like all people with timid personalities, his
arrogance is unlimited. _____ hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation.
It's people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest, while, in _____’s
case, everything he does on screen is therapeutic.

2
• ______’s gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him seriously as a thinker –
and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares about
these days, and, like most messages, it could be written on the head of a pin.

3
• But I’ve never understood the cult of __________. Particularly the late American
movies. I don’t recognize the same director! Egotism and laziness.And they’re all lit like
television shows. About the time he started to lose color, he stopped looking through
the camera. I saw one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen the other night. __________’s
movie where XY through the window.
• Everything is stupid about it. Complete insensitivity to what a story about voyeurism
could be.
• I think he was senile a long time before he died. He was in life, you know. He kept falling
asleep while you were talking to him.

4
• I don’t condemn that very northern, very Protestant world of artists like _______; it’s
just not where I live.The ______(country) I like to visit is a lot of fun. But _______’s
______(country) always reminds me of something Henry James said about Ibsen’s
Norway – that it was full of “the odor of spiritual paraffin.” How I sympathize with that.

5
• No he didn’t improvise much, but he wasn’t the one who planned the jokes, either. He
had six gagmen. He was Johnny Carson! He did think up gags, but he also had gagmen.
• C’mon, who’s talking about touching? We’re talking about gags! A gag isn’t supposed to be
touching.

1
• Woody Allen

2
• Godard

3
• Alfred Hitchcock

4
• Ingmar Bergman

5
• Charlie Chaplin

INFINITE BOUNCE/INFINITE POUNCE 1I
• 11 Questions – +10/0 on bounce, +10/-5 on pounce

12
• There is a group of people, mostly young who travel to this specific area to pay tributes
or sometimes just to witness the time capsule which the area has become.
• This group is monitored and pursued by the police and not fond of journalists:They curry
in the forbidden, recover meaning from ______ detritus, and take digital appropriation to
new extremes.“It’s a post-apocalyptic romance,” as one young man put it.
• The group is called by a word which was first used in this context in a 1971 science
fiction novel called Roadside Picnic, by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Eight years
after the novel came out, it was adapted into a project which has achieved a cult status.
• What is the group called? Which place are they visiting?

12
• Stalker, Chernobyl

13
• Following are some of the artworks by the English artist BenWilson.Along with his
passion of wood working, Ben does something else which he sees as 'a form of art' and a
way of recycling waste rather than just an eccentric hobby.
• His miniature art is easy to miss unless passers-by take a close look. But they can be
spotted all along the Millennium Bridge and its surrounding area.
• What is so special about this art?

13

13
• Chewing Gum

14
• Kairennosuke and theThree Shining Swords is a Japanese Kabuki play which retells
another story. Kairennosuke is the name given to one of the characters from the original
story.
• Each act focuses on the internal turmoil Kairennosuke struggles with while drawing his
sword in anger to kill and sever the ties to an important figure in his life.
• What is the inspiration for this Kabuki play?

14

14
• Star Wars

15
• When a 41 year old _________ __________ moved to Paris in 1936, he began to miss
his native Spain. In a foreign country, displaced from home which was under a civil war, he
started to search for inspiration by delving into memories of his childhood in the small
town of Getaria in the Basque country.
• His mother had aristocratic clients and encountering their splendid art collections
sparked a lifelong fascination with old master painting - a passion that produced the
billowing shapes, voluminous architecture, minimalist lines and bold colours that came to
define his craft.
• Who used these Spanish paintings as a source of inspiration for his work?

15

15
• Balenciaga

16
• The central theme of this film would have been “the continuous struggle between the
imaginative life as depicted in the old myths and the practical and rational life of
contemporary society.”
• It was supposed to be a love story between a Spanish aristocrat named Jimmy and a
“beautiful surrealist woman, whose face is never seen by the audience”.
• The film was written by an artist and he planned to make it with a famous comedy duo.
At points in the screenplay, the artist had simply written “insert ____ ____ routine”.
• In the following slides, you’ll find a poem written by Jack Kerouac for one of the members
of the duo and Adrien Brody playing the artist in Midnight in Paris.
• Identify the artist and the comedy duo.

16
O _____!When did you seem like an angel
the last time?
and played the gray harp of gold?
When did you steal the silverware
and bug-spray the guests?
When did your brother find rain
in you sunny courtyard?
When did you chase your last blonde
across the Millionaires' lawn
with a bait hook on a line
protruding from your bicycle?
Or when last you powderpuffed
your white flour face
with fishbarrel cover?
Or when last you powderpuffed
your white flour face
with fishbarrel cover?
_____! Who was that Lion
I saw you with?
How did you treat the midget
and Konk the Giant?
_____, in your recent nightclub appearance
in New Orleans were you old?
were you still chiding with your horn
in the cane at your golden belt?
Did you still emerge from your pockets
another _____, or screw on
new wrists?
Was your vow of silence an Indian Harp?

16

16
• Salvador Dali and Marx Brothers

17
• While studying the painting technique of an artist, scientists discovered that he took
advantage of certain features of fluid dynamics years before physicists thought to study
them.
• Some have suggested that the snarls of paint have lasting appeal because they reflect
fractal geometry that shows up in clouds and coast lines.The patterns on the canvas were
formed through a fluid instability called coiling, in which thick fluids fold onto themselves
like coils of rope.
• "When _______ was doing that, when he mixed his paints and diluted them and chose
paints of similar density and different viscosity and so on, in a way he was doing
experiments in fluid dynamics,"
• Which artist’s painting technique is being talked here?

17
• Jackson Pollock

18
• Colorful projections of paintings of an artist were displayed at the Atelier des Lumière – a
digital museum dedicated to fine art in Paris.
• Overseen by Culturespaces, a private operator of museums and monuments,Atelier des
Lumières features artworks projected onto 10-metre-high walls across a 3,300 square
metre area.This concept is introduced to make art accessible to the a large audience who
don’t usually visit a gallery.
• Just identify which painters’ works were being displayed along with a few
others.

18

18
• Gustav Klimt

19
• A couple of ladies were trying to find how a particular makeup altered women’s
appearances, and in particular if they were successful in helping women achieve the
favoured look of the day.
• The cosmetics used were made up by Anna Canning based on two of the recipes for skin
from Caterina Sforza’s Experimenti – “to cure redness of the face” (using lead white
replacement, rose and violet oil) and “a very light and most excellent rouge” (using
sandalwood and alcoholic spirit).
• What were these ladies trying to replicate?

19

19
• Renaissance Makeup

20
• In the next slide, you’ll see a pair of glasses by Prada which were used by an Italian bloke
in 1963 and were worn by another Italian bloke.
• Just identify where one might have seen these pair of glasses.

20

20
• Federico Fellini’s 81/2

21
• This art exhibition which debuted last year is targeted towards a very concerning crisis.
The main structure is made using traditional techniques of kite-making, exchanging the
original PVC rubber for bamboo.
• Suspended around the installation are figures crafted from bamboo and silk.These figures
based on mythic creatures from the shan hai jing — or classic of mountains and seas — a
traditional chinese text which dates back to the 4th century B.C.
• The installation is a continuation of the artist’s ongoing engagement with politics and
social justice. It follows the release of his feature-length documentary, Human Flow.
• Which artist’s installation is this? Which serious subject is this based on?

21

21
• Ai Weiwei, Refugee Crisis

22
• This character from a 1976 film only appeared in the film for a single scene but leaves a
mark on the audience with his frenetic egregiousness and slick sales skills.
• That was because the actor, Steven Price, wasn’t acting as he was that kind of guy, a junkie
hustler, a part-time roadie, and a friend of the director.The director was so rapt with the
real character of Price that he made a short documentary in 1978 entitled American Boy
about the man and his, shall we say, colorful experiences.
• The doc was never released but there were some screenings here and there and a
bootlegVHS copy came into the hands of a 22 year old working in a video store and he
was particularly inspired by a scene from the documentary.
• The scene captures Prince at a dealer’s place when something happens and that featured
into the 22 year old’s film.
• Which 1976 film featured Prince? Which film was inspired by the scene from
American Boy?

22

22
• Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction

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