This film is about an artist reflecting switching medias and concepts from painting (abstract expressionism) to film and in the process reflecting on early influences in his youth of such as Man Ray, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Jean Cocteau, Giorgio de Chirico,... and so on.

With that in mind I went to Turin, Italy where de Chirico did some of his best work, and Menton France to the Cocteau Museum, and to Hollywood where Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid lived and shot the film using an Arri 16BL. I did all of the editing and created the music using Logic on a Mac Computer. There is no dialogue but the artist speaking as if in a dream with the voice and actual words low in volume and had to hear fully what is being said.

There are two women ("models") in the film in some manner representing KiKi of Monteparnasse in Man Ray's Violin d'Ingres. This films is about 9 minutes long and I titled it Adieu la Belle sort saying good bye to a love affair with medium of painting as well as symbolically representing if you will all that artists say "goodbye" to in their lives as they make an effort to move forward. - Brice Bowman