Selfportrait with the Device

In the 1990 text on his film Autoportrait au dispositif 1981 Lebrat wrote that all his films are in fact selfportraits including those that are abstract colour films and the Rothkos painting are the most beautiful examples of selfportraiture in twentieth century art lebrat notes that the impetus behind selfportraiture comes out of his desire to create another image of his body which does not necessarily have to be its representation but can suggest another satte of being for example the infinite and transcendent state aims at overcoming the problem of corps morcelé and mortal flesh Izabella PruskaOldenhof