Films on Art
Tracing Light
Fri 07.02.25, 20:00
Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
Tickets: 9€ regular/ 7€ reduced
D 2024, Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Duration: 99 minutes
Anyone who goes to the movies is primarily drawn to light. Thomas Riedelsheimer has made it the focus of a documentary that blends art and science, exploring the topic through captivating imagery. The filmmaker interviews German and British physicists and visits artists such as Scottish land artist Julie Brook, who creates light installations along the rugged Scottish coast. Tracing Light takes us on an illuminating, magical, and sensory journey to the edges of human imagination. Together with his charismatic subjects and the outstanding film score by Fred Frith and Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Riedelsheimer’s fascinating visuals allow us to experience light in all its myriad facets, forms, and complexities.
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).