Log in
The origin of the world

The origin of the world

2025 · 12 min · Documentary

El origen del mundo is a short film that stages a tableau vivant of Gustave Courbet’s provocative painting of the same name. Captured in a single, continuous 10-minute take, the film centres on a model, Leila, posing to recreate the painting’s composition, while the director and crew discuss its historical censorship, the nature of the gaze, and the interplay between cinematic and painterly framing.

Directed by Jazmín López

Your Rating

Cast

More from Jazmín LópezSee all →

UyuniUyuni · 2005
Uyuni
★ 10.02005
Movie
The politically and environmentally challenged landscape of the Bolivian town of Uyuni is the backdrop for a tense exchange between a man and a woman, which is intercut with sound from Peruvian radio.
Venice 70: Future ReloadedVenice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
★ 5.02013
MovieDramaDocumentary
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
LionsLions · 2012
Lions
★ 4.52012
MovieDramaAdventure
Deep in the forest a group of five friends wander around like a lion herd. Lost in their word games, they play and seduce each other while going back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate search to avoid their already written story.
If I Were the Winter ItselfIf I Were the Winter Itself · 2020
If I Were the Winter Itself
★ 2.02020
MovieDrama
Four friends meet on a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works that embodied the social and artistic revolution of 50 years ago.
El contrabajoEl contrabajo · 2008
El contrabajo
2008
MovieDrama
On the banks of the city of Buenos Aires, among the rubble that forms the coast of her ecological reserve, she listens attentively to the confession. The rest, what follows, will be mere inconveniences and questions between a corpse and a double bass, between the imperfect city and its river, which will sow doubt about the resistance of its revenge.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter