Rose Wylie

This painting belongs to the series Film Notes, in which Wylie depicts visually compelling film scenes. The movies are by directors she especially admires, such as Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, or Werner Herzog. She recreates these moments from memory. That is, she does not reproduce each scene exactly but instead conveys her personal memory of it.

The painting Natural Born Killers, Long-shot (Film Notes) is based on director Oliver Stone’s 1994 road movie of the same name. The film is about a couple that drives across America in a Cabrio murdering people, and the media glorifies them as antiheroes. Stone thereby examines how the U.S. media influences public opinion.

As the title notes, Wylie chose a film still that was taken with a long shot, that is with a wide-angle lens. The artist examines such cinematographic details in other works in the Film Notes series. Two other paintings show the same scene from different camera angles.