This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.
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More non-nature documentaries in 3d please!!!
"Anselm" is a hypnotic, immersive experience that, much like its subject, is an invitation, provocation, and confrontation. Unmoored from the traditional beats of the modern documentary, it moves foreword and backward through time, through various media, and brings Keifer into focus for moments of breathtaking clarity before he recedes into the background again, leaving the viewer to contemplate his immense oeuvre in stunningly filmed images. This is not biography nor hagiography. It is rather a portrait of an artist, a history, an entire way of being-in-the-world that both Wenders and Keifer represent. The children of Germany Year Zero are a generation fraught with a search for meaning, unmoored from the timeline of world history while sitting at its modern fulcrum, who through their art grappled with the sins of their parents and their country. "Anselm" succeeds as a film precisely…