Peter Schamoni
1934 - 2011
Max Ernst - Mein Vagabundieren, meine Unruhe
Peter Schamoni
Max Ernst
This documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of Ernst's fascinating career via a format that mirrors the restless reality of his life. An inveterate traveler and always on the move, Ernst lived and worked in Germany, France and America. His nomadic way of life kept him searching: "A painter is lost if he finds himself."
Max Ernst: My Vagabonds - My Restlessness
Niki de Saint Phalle: Wer ist das Monster - du oder ich?
Peter Schamoni
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely
In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.
Niki de Saint Phalle: Wer ist das Monster - du oder ich?
Arme Leute
Vlado Kristl
Vlado Kristl, Christian Doermer
Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a “collective scream” of Cold War fear, was produced just after he left his country.
Poor People
Brutalität in Stein
Peter Schamoni, Alexander Kluge
Hans Clarin, Christian Marschall
In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.
Brutality in Stone
