Anselm
Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit
Awards
Cannes FF (2023) โ Nominated: L'ลil d'or
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards (2023) โ Nominated: Best Cinematography
Columbus Film Critics Association (2024) โ Winner: Best Documentary
Rolf-Hans Mueller Award (2023) โ Nominated: Leonard Kรผรner (composer)
CineLibri Int’l Book and Movie Festival (2023) โ Winner: Best Documentary
Santa Fe Int’l FF (2023) โ Winner: Audience Choice Best Special Presentation Documentary Feature
IDA Documentary Awards (2023) โ Nominated: Best Cinematography
IDA Documentary Awards (2023) โ Winner: Best Original Music Score
German Film Awards (2024) โ Nominated: Best Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) โ Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) โ Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2024) โ Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
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 Anselmโs 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 โ and all large-scale work which requires that the viewer move around to survey it โ is a kind of cinematic expression, the works inseparable from the always-moving human lens of perspective.
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Trailer
Previous Festivals
Cannes FF (2023)
CineLibri Int’l Book and Movie Festival (2023)
Santa Fe Int’l FF (2023)
Press Comments
German New Wave pioneer and director Wim Wenders and the subject of his documentary the celebrated painter, sculptor and installation creator Anselm Kiefer, were both born in 1945. In different ways these two artists have devoted much of their careers to interrogating difficult questions about their homeland’s relationship to and complicity in its horrific Nazi past. As Wenders previously did in his groundbreaking 2011 documentary about German choreographer Pina Bausch, the director here pushes the boundaries of the medium to allow viewers to immerse themselves in the towering size and scope of Kiefer’s work and projects. There is archival footage that provides some thin biographical context but mostly the film is about the art, allowing for some fascinating glimpses into Kiefer’s working process, studio spaces and determined focus on a lifetime of challenging audiences to look deep within the psyche of Germany and its complicated, uneasy relationship with the long shadows of its past.
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