The film opens on august 10, at new yorks film forum. It was recorded in 1967, and released in march of that year on deram records. I think this is the only documentary ive seen that has completely favoured style over substance. Over your cities grass will grow the transient world is. Photo by remco shaw, c amoeba film ltd, ribotte paris 2010. Over your cities grass will grow the transient world is reality. Over your cities grass will grow year 2010 genre documentary type movies idmb rating 6. Over your cities grass will grow curzon artificial eye. Over your cities grass will grow official trailer youtube. Video archive for the film over your cities grass will grow, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2011.
Over your cities grass will grow the little theatre. A mesmerizing portrait of the artist anselm kiefer by acclaimed documentarian sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema, over your cities grass will grow is part tribute and part deconstruction. William jennings bryan burn down your cities and leave. One is the sort you will find in galleries at exorbitant prices, exploring the whichness of what, the nature of beauty and at least sometimes the gullibility of pretentious wouldbe savants. Sophie fiennes has directed an intriguing, nearwordless documentary about the work of industrial. Back in the eighties, when i was a teenager and first discovering contemporary art, kiefer was a really big name. Theres something admirable to this austerity and the way it insists viewers start by engaging with kiefers largescale constructions, wordless explorations of which bookend the film. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. It is a psychedelic pop song referring to the synesthetic effects of hallucinogenics. From 2000 he began constructing a series of elaborate. Our curzon members can watch this and 11 other essential handpicked films for free with curzon12. He was there for nearly twenty years, employing a handful of men to build an eerie collection of tunnels, bridges, concrete towers, lead baths, lead warships and lead bibles all. Over your cities grass will grow is that rare art documentary one that places the art front and center, not as an adjunct to its makers biography. Over your cities grass will grow film, art documentary.
Overview of over your cities grass will grow, 2010, directed by sophie fiennes, with anselm kiefer, klaus dermutz, at turner classic movies. A mesmerizing portrait of the artist anselm kiefer by acclaimed documentarian sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema, over your cities grass will grow is part tribute and part. Over your cities grass will grow 2011 rotten tomatoes. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country william. The film bears witness to german artist anselm kiefers alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hillstudio estate in the south of france. Although its being marketed and discussed as a documentary, it attempts a kind of arts criticism via film, and the parts that work, work wonderfully.
Over your cities grass will grow takes you into kiefers artistic estate to discover these sights and moreincluding an underground pool at the culdesac of a tubular iron tunnel embedded within a crypt, a 20meter tiered concrete amphitheater, and an open landscape of concrete towers assembled like so many card houses. Smoked by generations of musicians, students and workers to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by the vast majority of governments around the world. Over your cities grass will grow this autumn the royal academy will have a major retrospective exhibition for anselm kiefer. From 2000 he began constructing a series of elaborate installations there, comprising 48 buildings, a. Over your cities grass will grow bears witness to german artist anselm kiefers alchemical creative processes and renders as a film journey the personal universe he has built at his hill studio estate in the south of france. From 2000 he began constructing a series of elaborate installations there. T he last documentary about art released here was banksys exit through the gift shop. Over your cities grass will grow featurette 2011 hd. Anselm kiefer over your cities grass will grow duration. Kiefer and a journalist are the most pleasurable and satisfying parts of over your cities grass will grow. After seeing the film, i now know why, a british critic wrote. Rent over your cities grass will grow 2010 starring anselm kiefer on dvd and bluray. A clip from sophie fiennes over your cities grass will grow 2011, to be released by alive mind cinema. Over your cities grass will grow anselm kiefer teeth and glass cimler ortsun ustunuzu duration.
Before i saw the film, i knew that kiefer was a great artist. Over your cities grass will grow in cinemas oct 15th. These scenes and a later interview in german between mr. Over your cities grass will grow 2010 the film bears witness to german artist anselm kiefers alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hillstudio. Art documentaries archives over your cities grass will grow. He was there for nearly twenty years, employing a handful of men to build an eerie collection of tunnels, bridges, concrete towers, lead baths, lead warships and lead bibles all dripping with acid, and more nearly conventional art works. Over your cities grass will grow movie trailer 2011 hd. And the award for this years dullest film goes to over your cities grass will grow, which also scoops 2010s special prize for navelscratching, absurdly dull uselessness. I also reverted your unexplained removal of another source. Although almost every statement that begins there are two types of is either facile or disingenuous, there are two types of art. Over your cities grass will grow movie trailers itunes.
Rent over your cities grass will grow 2010 on dvd and blu. Rent over your cities grass will grow 2010 on dvd and. Jul 26, 2011 a mesmerizing portrait of the artist anselm kiefer by acclaimed documentarian sophie fiennes the perverts guide to cinema, over your cities grass will grow is part tribute and part. Anna sorenson idea, scenography, animation fredrik streiffert photography, video editor new york 2008, shot with eos 5d mki, grass will grow over your cities on vimeo. Fienness camera tracks slowly around its bunkers and underground passages with their pools of water. Kiefer invokes during that interview, which takes place across a table in a bright. Of course, with ecofriendly methods of insulation being used today, grass growing over our cities is more encouraged than feared, but the sense of threat originally intended found itself translated here into. When its working as it should, it is riveting stuff, offering an intimate, flyonthewall. The film s commitment to letting these pieces stake their own claim on the attention is impressive, and yet theres no nonphilistine way to.
A documentary focusing on german industrial artist anselm kiefer and his his former silk factory studio in the studio in the south of france. Over your cities grass will grow is a 2010 sophie fiennes documentary about the german industrial artist anselm kiefers creation of a gesamtkunstwerk in. Financial analysis of over your cities grass will grow 2011 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. An excerpt from over your cities grass will grow by. There are currently three videos available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Over your cities grass will grow details and credits. Over your cities grass will grow is a look into anselm kiefers studio in barjac, france. This film, selfdescribed as a film of the work of anselm kiefer shows the artist at work in his studio in barjac, in the south of france, on. Over your cities grass will grow 2011 german artist anselm kiefer uses unusual processes. Seven years later, he began constructing a series of elaborate installations there. Decoder ring they blind the stars, and the wild team. Over your cities grass will grow beyond words publishing.
And thats as close as the film comes to any explanation. Over your cities grass will grow attempts to let kiefers art, and the process by which its made, speak for itself. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing over your cities grass will grow near you. Over your cities grass will grow is a 2010 sophie fiennes documentary about the german industrial artist anselm kiefers creation of a gesamtkunstwerk in an abandoned factory complex outside barjac, france. William jennings bryan quotes from burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. Over your cities grass will grow kino lorber theatrical.
Fiennes film is a sober, impressive introduction to the work and the approach of kiefer. The film s title refers to a line kiefer cites from the bible, about grass growing over decaying cities. Over your cities grass will grow is the title of a documentary film about german artist anselm kiefer and the land art that he created in barjac, france to symbolise the devastating cultural deformations resulting from world war ii. Bloodlight and bami sophie fiennes is a film director whose feature documentaries include her collaborations with the slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek, the perverts guide to cinema and the perverts guide to ideology, and her 2010 portrait of german artist anselm kiefer, over your cities grass will grow.
It works because the critic filmmaker shuts the fuck up. Over your cities grass will grow letterboxd social film. Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the twentieth century. The film bears witness to german artist anselm kiefers alchemical creative processes and renders in film.
Over your cities grass will grow downloadlibrary overdrive. Over your cities grass will grow 2011 traileraddict. Over your cities grass will grow dvd kino lorber home. Over your cities grass will grow curzon home cinema. Aug 10, 2011 sophie fienness film over your cities grass will grow is a portrait of the painter and sculptor anselm kiefer at work and an exploration of the artistic compound he created in france. And the film s closing images seem to show the apparently last set of major structures kiefer set up at. Flying dutchmans rating of the film over your cities grass will grow flying dutchman the tv arts doc is so grimly formulaic, trapped by the trend for biography, celebrity commentators and remits for accessibility, this contemplative documentary is a revelation. A styling guide is also present with each hairstyle so that you can style on your own, and there will be more to come on over your cities soon. Over your cities grass will grow 2010 available on netflix. Over your cities grass will grow comes from a passage in the book of isaiah which describes the lords day of vengeance. I can hear the grass grow is the second single by the move.
For admirers of the artist and the openminded, over your cities grass will grow actually presents the ideal way of appreciating kiefers extraordinary work, which is inseparable from the far. Sophie fienness film over your cities grass will grow is a portrait of the painter and sculptor anselm kiefer at work and an exploration of the artistic compound he created in france. Intro see the people all in line im thinking they look at me cant imagine that their minds are thinkin the same as me i can hear the grass grow i. Over your cities grass will grow takes you into kiefer\s artistic estate to discover these sights and more including an underground pool at the culdesac of a tubular iron tunnel embedded within a crypt, a 20meter tiered concrete amphitheater, and an open landscape of. Over your cities grass will grow is part tribute and part deconstruction. Over your cities grass will grow 2011 movie moviefone. Long center parted choppy layers a layered hairstyle can look extremely beautiful with long hair and this hairstyle is the prime example of it.
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