Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit (2023)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 93 minuten
Alternative title: Anselm
Country:
Germany
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders and Daniel Kiefer
IMDb score:
7,2 (2.397)
Releasedate: 12 October 2023
Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit plot
"The sound of time."
Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present blur the line between film and painting, creating a unique film experience that delves deep into an artist's work. This reveals his life path.
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De filosoof
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- 2490 messages
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Anselm Kiefer is considered one of the most important contemporary artists, but I didn't actually know him. The first thing this documentary teaches about him and his work is that he is a student of Joseph Beuys and that his paintings are very large. You cannot call his paintings beautiful: he is also the first to admit that he has no talent for painting (just like Van Gogh had no talent and with whom he feels related). His paintings or landscapes are also ugly in the sense that they are gloomy and above all show destruction (also literally when he attacks his work with a blowtorch), which is related to what perhaps characterizes him most: his work is post-WWO II in the sense that he grew up in Germany after WWII, where he struggles with Nazi Germany in his own way to come to the conclusion that history cannot be rationally understood, for which reason he uses myths (or a layered stacking of stories, just as his paintings form a stack of different materials).
On a more abstract level, his work is characterized by the combination of order and chaos, of being and nothing, of creation and destruction. What Kiefer himself says often tends towards the philosophical or even enigmatic, which he may have in common with the poet Paul Celan, who is regularly quoted in the documentary. The documentary does not make it clear what the relationship is between the two: the documentary offers little information anyway (the few minutes of Nieuwsuur about the artist provided more information) and is more impressionistic in order to capture the (gloomy) atmosphere of his work. knows how to convey.
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hvdriel
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- 397 messages
- 357 votes
Director Wim Wenders and artist Anselm Kiefer have their year of birth (1945) and their country of birth (Germany) in common, and therefore a terrifying past. For Kiefer, this led to enormous art objects, inspired by mythological figures and writers such as Celan and Bachmann, in an attempt to depict the inexpressible.
Wenders, in turn, worked for two years on his own work of art: a representation of Kiefer and his work with the help of Kiefer, his sources of inspiration and his work. The result is visual, musical, non-explanatory, stunning and melancholy, with the occasional bright spot.
Two colossi consolingly patting each other on the back.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
The German artist Anselm Kiefer was born two months before the end of the Second World War. In the late 1960s he became discredited due to a number of works of art in which he denounced the culture of silence surrounding the Nazi past. The combination of his productivity and the size of many of his works – which Wenders makes amusingly clear – requires a factory hall as a warehouse. Wenders follows Anselm as he rides his bicycle through his 'studio' and lets the camera's eye fall on a number of complex works of art that Anselm passes. Nice images, but we don't learn much about the creator of the works of art. Wenders certainly does not ask critical questions. An eye-catching, but superficial documentary full of artistic postcards. Seen in 2D and that makes you long for the 3D version, which therefore deserves an extra ½ star.
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