Film Info
Gerhard Richter - Painting

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Gerhard Richter - Painting
Director	Corinna Belz
Country
Year	2011
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	97'

Cast:

Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker, Sabine Moritz-Richter, Konstanze Ell

Credits:

G: Corinna Belz
F: Johann Feindt,
Frank Kranstedt, Dieter Stürmer
E: Sabine Rollberg, Jutta Krug, Katja Wildermuth
S: Gerrit Lucas, Sven Phil Lentzen
P: Thomas Kufus
CP: zero one film

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Synopsis

Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process, and even Dresden-born visual artist Gerhard Richter –an 80-year-old master of many brush styles and ideas, from photorealistic portraiture to abstract expressionism– believes his work can’t be described with words. “Painting is another form of thinking,” the soft-spoken but no-bullshit iconoclast tells director Corinna Belz, whose magnificent and evocative observances of him laboring in his studio come as close as cinema gets to tracking the impulses and paradoxes of a gifted imagination. Alone with his enormous canvases, Richter studies his own vibrant-hued strokes and patterns, disappoints himself in the moment, then destroys and creates anew with a giant squeegee pulled across the would-be work of art, aided by Belz’s deeply satisfying attention to the tactile sounds of paint slapped on or scraped away. Gerhard Richter - Painting artfully and convincingly immerses us into the world of one of the greatest, painting. AH