‘Anselm’ Director Wim Wenders Taps Into “Poetic, Immersive” Quality Of 3D For Documentary On Monumental German Artist
18.12.2023 - 04:19
/ deadline.com
The Oscar-contending documentary Anselm marks an encounter between two of the world’s great artists – one renowned for cinema, the other for painting, installations, and sculpture.
The filmmaker, Wim Wenders, began his career more than 50 years ago, with credits that include Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club, The Salt of the Earth, and Pina, and two this year alone – Anselm and the narrative feature Perfect Days. His protagonist in Anselm – the German-born artist Anselm Kiefer, may not be as well known among the public as Wenders, but his work stuns in its power, erudition, and scale. Simply put, Kiefer makes art of monumental dimensions.
“We were in the landscape of his own studio [outside Paris],” Wenders tells Deadline, “this huge depot, bigger than airplane hangars — and several of them.”
Capturing the size of the workspace and the individual artworks, Wenders concluded, called for something different than a standard 2D approach.
“To take people there and to see so much, 3D is the best way. It not only enables you to see the space and be there spatially, but it also enables you to see more,” Wenders explains. “It is a very intense medium in order to grasp and see the aura of something. Your mind is working in overtime when you watch 3D because it’s your mind that puts together the space.”
He adds, “3D has a beautiful quality that is almost untapped because people know 3D only in the shape of action movies, and then there’s a cut every two seconds or five… 3D done physiologically correct so that you can really look at it calmly and it doesn’t hurt your eyes and it’s the right depth, it is as if you were there. And that quality of 3D, that poetic, immersive quality, they don’t even know yet.”
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