2002, Palm Springs, CA: an amazing Richard Neutra house is bulldozed by an individual who just bought it $2.5 million. Built in 1962, this "modernist jewel" sited on the green of a spectacular golf course in the middle of the desert, was designed to house an outstanding modern and contemporary art collection. Drawing on Neutra’s interest in psychoanalysis and on rumors about the buyer’s personal vendetta, the film is an inquiry into our desire to protect and destroy beauty. Echoing Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytical theory, the house embodies the good breast protecting and nurturing creativity, while the buyer becomes the envious and destructive bad breast.

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The Good Breast and the Bad Breast, HD video, 22'22''
DOP : Victor Zébo
Camera assistant : François Nobécourt
Sculptures and set design : Yan Tomaszewski
Film editors : Yan Tomaszewski, Benjamin Cataliotti Valdina
Color grading : Alexandre Westphal
Graphic design : Charles Villa
Re-recording mixer : Emmanuel Desguez
Production: Yan Tomaszewski
Co-production: Backyard Films
With the support of: Institut Français
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View from the exhibition La Nuit Electrique, Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, 2020, photo: David Boureau
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Exhibition view, Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art, 2019
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Views from the exhibition Demo, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2020, photos: Tag Christof, Esteban Schimpf
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Jacques Lipchitz II, glazed ceramic, 18 x 8,3 x 9,2 cm
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Views from the exhibition Demo MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2020, photos: Tag Christof, Esteban Schimpf
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Jacques Lipchitz I, glazed ceramic, 5,5 x 15 x 11 cm, photo: Esteban Schimpf
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Henri Laurens, glazed ceramic, 20 x 9,6 x 8 cm, photo: Esteban Schimpf
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Jean Arp, glazed ceramic, 18 x 8,3 x 9,2 cm, photo: Tag Christof
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Alberto Giacometti, glazed ceramic, 20 x 10 x 9,8 cm
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Artemis of Ephesus, glazed ceramic, 18 x 10 x 8 cm, photo: Esteban Schimpf
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The Good Breast and the Bad Breast, HD video, 22'22'
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