Anselm

Name: Anselm
Director: Wim Wenders
Released: 2023
Duration: 93

Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit

Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path.

V&A Waterfront Tickets

Awards

Cannes FF (2023) – Nominated: L'Œil d'or

Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards (2023) – Nominated: Best Cinematography

Columbus Film Critics Association (2024) – Winner: Best Documentary

Rolf-Hans Mueller Award (2023) – Nominated: Leonard Küßner (composer)

CineLibri Int’l Book and Movie Festival (2023) – Winner: Best Documentary

Santa Fe Int’l FF (2023) – Winner: Audience Choice Best Special Presentation Documentary Feature

IDA Documentary Awards (2023) – Nominated: Best Cinematography

IDA Documentary Awards (2023) – Winner: Best Original Music Score

German Film Awards (2024) – Nominated: Best Documentary

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Feature

International

African Premiere

Award Winning

Screenings – CT

Ster-Kinekor V&ASat 21 June 6.30pm

Screenings – Jozi

Zone @ RosebankSat 28 June 8pm

Director(s):

Wim Wenders

Country:

Germany

Year:

2023

Duration:

93 min

Language(s):

German | English

RATING:

With Anselm, master filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the medium of 3D cinema that he used to such extraordinary effect in his much acclaimed Pina. Looking at the life, work, and processes of the seminal German artist Anselm Keifer, Wenders takes a layered and abstracted approach, slowly building a portrait of the man, his art, and the spaces in which he makes his often monolithic works. Including just a few fragments of conventional interviews with the artist, the film is an exquisitely controlled collage of archive material, seamless re-enactments and beautifully choreographed cinematography that gives Anselm’s work centre stage. As with Pina, Wenders once more reinvigorates the much-abused immersiveness of 3D, displacing the usual spectacle of the medium with an architectural delicacy that points to new ways that film can engage and intersect with fine art, particularly in the case of large-scale works. Anselm also highlights the fact that sculpture – and all large-scale work which requires that the viewer move around to survey it – is a kind of cinematic expression, the works inseparable from the always-moving human lens of perspective.

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Previous Festivals

Cannes FF (2023)

CineLibri Int’l Book and Movie Festival (2023)

Santa Fe Int’l FF (2023)