
Bismuth moved back to Paris to set up a studio and has lived in Brussels since the start of the 1990s, aside from a five-year spell from 2000 in London when his work was exhibited in the Lisson Gallery. In 1983, he began to study at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, where he became influenced by the artist Joseph Beuys, known for his use of ready-mades and found objects in his work, as well as for performance art. Bismuth was born in Paris in 1963 of North African heritage, and studied visual communication in Paris at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where in part he was taught by tutors who had been radicals in the student-led rising of May 1968. The germ of the script for "Eternal Sunshine" came from the French artist Pierre Bismuth. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson): not only have the two of them already had an affair, but also her memory of this has been wiped.

But she has forgotten something else, as she makes a pass at her boss, Dr. She ascribes the poem, Eloisa to Abelard (1717), to Pope Alexander, forgetting for a second that it is in fact by Alexander Pope. Mary is an employee of Lacuna Inc, a company that specializes in erasing unwanted memories from its clients’ brains, and on several occasions she recites a quotation that could give the corporation a motto. The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Įach pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d There is a moment in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) when the character Mary Svevo (Kirsten Dunst) quotes the poem that gives the film its title: Reprinted with kind permission of the author, the British Film Institute and Bloomsbury Publishing. Excerpted from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" © Andrew M.
