| | | | | | | | | Michael Verhoeven, 2014 © Beat Presser | | | | | BEHIND THE SCENES | | | | | | | 15 February – 7 March 2020 | | | | Opening: Saturday, 15 February, 12 - 15 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tabea Blumenschein, ("Bildnis einer Trinkerin", 1976) © Ulrike Ottinger | | | | | | | The day the pictures learned to walk was a Friday. The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, soon celebrated all over the world as the inventors of the cinema release, had invited to the Paris Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie to set the light image in motion. It was March 22, 1895, when the whole world was to see it - as if photography had been given a kind of breath. The new cinematograph, in any case, kept them on their toes. And since then she has been running and running and running. As if she had never stood still before either. | | | | | | | | | | Eva Mattes ("Ein Mann wie EVA", 1983) © Lillian Birnbaum | | | | | | Meanwhile, an exhibition at the Berlin gallery Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST takes the moving pictures into the gear. Under the title "Behind the Scenes", photographs will be shown, which interrupt film history once again for small moments - rebelling against the fast cuts, the spectacular camera movements. These are shots that transform the course of the images back into great moments: Staged portraits of Juliette Binoche or Iris Berben; scene shots of Eva Mattes in the role of Rainer Maria Fassbinder, or backstage photographs from the great films 'PINA' or 'THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL'.
With photographs by Lillian Birnbaum, Hannes Kilian, Birgit Kleber, Ulrike Ottinger, Beat Presser, Volker Schlöndorff and Donata Wenders, the exhibition documents the close relationship between film and photography with each image. Many of the participating photographers themselves live at the creative interface between photograph and cinema; others appreciate the productive balancing act between movement and standstill. Beat Presser, for example, who became known to a large audience in the 1980s through his expressive portraits of Klaus Kinski or Werner Herzog during the shooting of Fitzcarraldo or Cobra Verde, shows other unforgotten heads of the "New German Cinema" in BEHIND THE SCENES: Michael Verhoeven, for example, or Bruno Ganz, who died a year ago. | | | | | | | | | | Juliette Binoche, 1997 © Birgit Kleber | | | | | | Volker Schlöndorff on the other hand, in the 70s and 80s himself one of the most luminous fixed stars of the then celebrated cinema revolution in the old Federal Republic, shows contact sheets and prints of photos that were taken as preliminary studies for his films. "Behind the Scenes" is thus much more than just a photographic gem for cineastes; by means of selected moments, the exhibition documents a small piece of the great history of film.
Ralf Hanselle | | | | | | | | | | Enrica & Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara 1997 © Donata Wenders | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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