Films on Art
Tracing Light

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Fri 07.02.25, 20:00

Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
Tickets: 9€ regular/ 7€ reduced

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D 2024, Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Duration: 99 minutes

When you go to the movies, you're mainly interested in light. Thomas Riedelsheimer has made it the subject of a documentary that oscillates between art and science and illustrates the topic in sometimes intoxicating images. The filmmaker interviews German and British physicists and visits artists such as Scottish land artist Julie Brook, who works with light installations on the rugged Scottish coast. The astonishing follows the familiar, and in the end the light remains: omnipresent and fascinating, but elusive.

Between 2012 and 2024, the Films on Art series was held in the glass hall of Café Podest in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park. In spring 2025, it will now make a guest appearance at the Pina Bausch Centre under construction. Curator Mark Tykwer has three special cinema evenings on the program: the interview film Pina’s Pearls by Wuppertal journalist and filmmaker Anne Linsel about the first and second generation of dancers at Tanztheater Wuppertal (Friday, 31. January), the current light and land art documentary Tracing Light by Thomas Riedelsheimer (Friday, 7. February) and finally Wim Wenders' artistic Anselm Kiefer portrait Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit (2D) (Friday, 14. February).

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