Film Project: Viva Niki—The Ｗay to The Tarot Garden. (Tentative title) Jan.2020

Film Project

Produce: Viva Niki Production Committee

Director: Michiko Matsumoto

Running time: 80 minutes

Schedule: June 2018  Commence filming
                Feb. 2020   Complete filming
                June 2020   Screening preview
                Oct. 2020     World Premiere（Niki’s 90th Birthday year）

＊Because of Covid-19, the schedule for the film is not decided at present.

Film locations:

• The Tarot Garden ( Grossetto, Italy) June,2018
• Three Nanas (Hannover,Germany) July,2018
• Sprengel Museum Hannover (Hannover,Germany) July,2018
• The Grotto (Hannover,Germany) July 2018
• Museum of Fine Arts Mons ( Mons,Belgium) October,2018
• The Dragon (Knokke, Belgium) October,2018
• Stravinsky Fountain ( Paris, France) October,2018
• Hakone Open-Air Museum ( Kanagawa,Japan) Dec.2018
• Benesse Art site Naoshima ( Seto Inland Sea,Japan ) July,2019
• Benesse Tokyo (Tokyo Japan) Dec.2019
• Queen Califia’s Magical Circle ( Escondido, CA, USA) Jan.2020
• The Sun God,Coming Together ,Serpent Tree (San Diego, CA, USA) Jan.2020

Archival photographs by Michiko Matsumoto:

• Portraits of Niki de Saint Phalle taken in Paris, London, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, 1981-1991
• Documentary stills of Niki’s creative process.
• Photographs of the artist’s works on exhibit across Europe and Japan.

Interviewed with

Stefano Mancini in Italy
Dawn Cardenas in Italy
Jean Gabriel Mitterrand in Paris
Camille Morineau in Paris
Marina Karella in Paris
Roger Nellens in Belgium
Takuro Kurokouchi from Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan
Chizuko Ueno Sociologist and feminist in Tokyo, Japan
Ms.Bloum Cardenas from NCAF in San Diego, CA, USA