FILM - MARCUS JANSEN

PORTRAIT IN STEPS

2025

RELEASE DATE TBT

MARCUS JANSNEN

Portrait in Steps.”

Film historian, journalist, Tiziano Sossi in October 2012 had a retrospective of his early works and previews at NapoliFilmFestival,

Tiziano, has shot (CLOSE UP), more than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others. The shooting of this short films was made between 1993 and 2002 the actors and directors passed away before 2012 (the first screening) during the shooting were still alive: Gregory Peck (Cannes 2000), Vittorio Gassman (Venice 1996), Alberto Sordi (Milan, Venice 1995-1996), Michelangelo Antonioni (Venice 1995), Marcello Mastroianni (Cannes 1996). So is original footage and not archive footage in these cases.
Link: Tiziano Sossi

The film is an intimate biographical one on one interview and story telling portrait of the painter Marcus Antonius Jansen, produced by Italian Filmmaker Tiziano Sossi that dives into various cultural stages of Marcus Jansen's life and art career. It covers five decades from humble beginnings in the Bronx in 1968 through his European experience being transplanted to Germany and later his military assignments that ultimately transformed his life leading to taking critical positions socially, historically, politically and painterly, while starting out selling art in New York City. SOHO district street corners.

Sossi, covers from Jansen's family to the most recent museum shows and incudes private footage including film from his Florida studios in Fort Myers, Florida in 2023.

"From Robert Henri, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jansen is an American, or better a New Yorker, to the marrow. I think he represents, together with British artists Cecily Brown and Peter Doig, the best part of the great contemporary art, that is rising, in terms of criticism, audience."

- Paolo Manazza, Art Critic,(Founder of Artslife.com), Milano, Italy

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EXAMINE AND REPORT
World Premiere
2017

Fort Myers Film Festival
EHFF

Award Winning Documentary
Marcus Jansen Examine & Report
2017

Featuring Steve Lazarides, Marcus Jansen, WEST Rubinstein, Dr. Manfred Schneckenburger, Richard Beavers, Dr. Brooke Lynn Mcgowen, NY columnist Noah Becker and more…

Malibu Arts Journal|March 2018 Review

"There’s a shot late in Emmy Award Winning director John Schoular’s incisive documentary Examine and Report that sums up what’s so fascinating about artist Marcus Jansen and his work"

- Rick Paulas

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