A pensive Julian Schnabel had much to say about death and immortality in art when he screened his latest film, In The Hand of Dante, as the opening night film at Tribeca Festival Lisboa on Wednesday night in Lisbon, Portugal.
Schnabel, wearing his signature artist smock and fedora, during a post-screening Q&a discussed themes of art and the creative process, and argued artists create as a way to confront a fear of death.
“Whether you’re an actor or you’re a painter, you’re using yourself as a guinea pig and the tool, and you make this thing and the thing becomes the thing that lasts. It’s a way of transgressing death,” he insisted.
Schnabel then added” “I’m not going to be around here for very long. I might be here for a few more years.” Even if he lived to be 100 years old, the filmmaker…
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