Gordana &
Marko Zivkovic

Oil on wood panels 3in x 17 3/4in or 23 3/4in (7.4cm x 45cm or 60.5cm)

I extract colors from the films of my favorite directors. It is an entirely subjective process, sometimes based on the director’s whole opus, and sometimes on their single films. Different aspects of their sensibility strike me with different directors. With Méliès, it is the colors he used to hand paint his films; with Fassbinder, it is how, unusually, the white prevails over black in his black & white Veronica Voss; Woody Allen’s warm, earthy colors and the absence of blue; Tarkovsky with his single dominant, water-soaked hue; Hitchcock’s famous single red frame in Spellbound; Wender’s Wings of Desire that made me start to like German; Fellini’s darkest of the dark cast shadows; Godard’s primary colors; and the vibrant New York colors of Spike Lee.