Magnificent7 Workshop with Stefan Tolz

One of the producers of ”Leaning into the Wind” Stefan Tolz, who in the absence of the director Thomas Riedelsheimer, on behalf of the film, took part in Magnificent7 in Belgrade, did one of the workshops which are part of the festival, situated at Dombank Dvorana in one of the smaller cinemas.

Tolz told about his going at the film school in Munich in the 1980’es – together with Claas Danielsen, former director of the DOKLeipzig festival and now director of the MDM, Middle German Film Fund, placed in Leipzig. Already in the school Tolz got to know Thomas Riedelsheimer – and a couple of years after they met and won awards at the San Francisco Film Festival – Riedelsheimer with his first film about Andy Goldsworhty, “Rivers and Tides”, Tolz as director with “On the Edge of Time”. In 2004 the set up the company Filmpunkt – take a look at the website http://www.filmpunkt.com/de/home/ – which is based in Köln with Tolz living in Tbilisi Georgia and Riedelsheimer in München. Quite international!

Tolz was very well prepared and after his introduction about how the company works, how the

partners divide the roles, “Thomas is the poetic guy, whenever there is something about money, he asks me to take care of that”, and after technical problems in the new cinema, some clips were shown, which are not in the film, but will be available as bonus material on the dvd of the film, which will come out in September. My comment: Wonderful that there are still dvd’s produced, I am gonna get this one!

Tolz, who is in love with France but wanted to go to Russia to the film school there, VGIK, as he speaks Russian, ended up in the film school in Georgia and is now making films there and helping out Georgian filmmakers as well. And lives in a beautiful place with his Georgian partner. He told that he and Riedelsheimer have no success in getting their films to IDFA in Amsterdam – my comment: shame on you IDFA that you have not taken “Leaning into the Wind” – at the same time as the film has had 40.000 tickets sold in German cinemas!

No tv-station upfront, Tolz said, we go for film fund support and with “Leaning…” we had Goldsworthy help us getting some of his art collectors invest in the film, which is very well financed. My comment: you can see that, indeed, it is called production value.

Andy Goldsworthy was an obvious inspiration for Riedelsheimer, “you have to let go”, he said to him, “total control is the death of art”.

As Tolz said the uniqueness of “Leaning…” is that you see the process of creation. Goldsworthy creates, Riedelsheimer creates. It’s magic! My comment: What a film!

www.magnificent7.org

Malla,Per,Alexander: Giants and the Morning After

Magnificent7 festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic write about the film:

“Giants and the Morning After” is a cinematic hit whose screenings are currently taking place throughout Sweden, while at the same time embarking on a trip to world festivals. The director’s trio, Malla Grapengiesser, Per Bifrost and Alexander Ryneus made funny and revealing walk through a Swedish small place in a country side. By combining myths, fairy tales and everyday realism, Swedish authors create a discrete comedy in a documentary of an unusual atmosphere.

Layers of past time interweave with everyday life. Beautiful, thick, dark forests enclose Idra. Neat spaces filled with houses, farms, small companies. Everyone here, both old and young, has one’s own business or entertainment, and together they create this little world in which everybody has an important place and a sense of belonging. In scenes of church gatherings, joint artistic endeavors, business ventures, children’s games or discreetly shot warm, intimate moments we witness the richness of life. Even when various newcomers are coming, planned or unplanned, they do not disturb the true peace of this small place immersed in a nature of the untouched beauty. Nevertheless, behind all this, in the darkness of the forest and in the shadows of giants that once shifted rocks, there is some dark anxiety that creates a threat to this rural idyll.

Malla Grapengiesser, Per Bifrost and Alexander Ryneus equally convincingly create a view of space and people, as well of intimate circles of friendship and love. They turn this seductive portrait of the seemingly sleepy Swedish countryside into a funny, lively and playful picture. Great, brilliant cinema!

http://www.giantsandthemorningafter.com/

Sweden, 2018, 88 mins.

FOLKEBIO 4/ En fremmed flytter ind

Nicole Horanyi: EN FREMMED FLYTTER IND / 15. JUNI 16:30 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / film i biografen

Jeg kan rigtig godt lide Amanda, jeg kan lide hende i hver eneste replik, bevægelse, stemning, i alle scener fra først til sidst. Amanda Midtgaard Kastrup bygger sit eget kunstværk opmuntret og ved hjælp af Esben Dalgaard, Henrik Bohn Ipsen, Rasmus Steensgård og åbenlyst styret af Nicole Horanyi (det ses af og til i billedet som planlagt element), bygger det og bygger det ind midt imellem Horanyis arrangerede/iscenesatte dokumentarfilm rekonstruktion og hendes andet lag i sin filmkonstruktion, en omhyggelig journalistisk afdækning i tabloidpresse stil. Præcist derimellem ligger Amandas fortælling, hendes vidneforklaring. På det sted fastholder hun urokkelig denne sin helt egen fortællings suverænt litterære værkhøjde.

http://filmcentralen.dk/grundskolen/film/en-fremmed-flytter-ind (FILMCENTRALENS streaming)

http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4026/ (Filmkommentarens anmeldelse)

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FOLKEBIO

Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program)

FOLKEBIO 3/ En frygtelig kvinde

Christian Tafdrup: EN FRYGTELIG KVINDE / 14. JUNI 19:30 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / film i biografen

Jeg har ikke set filmen og tyr til anmeldelserne: ”… Derfor er den store åbenbaring Amanda Collin, som ‘titelkvinden’. Hun skifter noget så elegant mellem de decideret psykopatisk manipulerende scener, og over til det autentiske drama med legende lethed. Det er svært at beskrive, men det hele ligger i hendes blik. Hun fremstår som to vidt forskellige personer, hvilket kun gør hende mere frygtindgydende. Ikke desto mindre er det ekstremt beundringsværdigt, særligt når man kan se, at hun uden for filmen er ganske genert.” (Kulturbunkeren.dk), og så ser jeg ser traileren og fornemmer i de korte klip der bestemt den nævnte elegance, og så hæfter jeg mig ved navnet Amanda. Jeg har nu to kvinder med det navn her i festivalen. Den anden Amanda er Amanda Midtgaard i Nicole N. Horanyis film En fremmed flytter ind. Den har jeg set og anmeldt: ”Det er fra begyndelsen klart, at det her handler om en films tilblivelse; kameraet følger Amanda, hun er i en optagelse og det viser sig kort efter at hun er på vej til en optagelse. Hun fortæller: ‘Det her er min historie… det er en kærlighedshistoie… så der er en mere… han hedder Casper… hans rolle spilles af en skuespiller…’ ” (Filmkommentaren.dk)

De er begge hovedpersonen i deres film, de er begge i problematiske forhold, de spiller begge deres rolle aldeles medrivende (hvis traileren i den sag er dækkende). Jeg er optaget af de to skuespilleres kunstneriske indsats, den ene (Collin) fremstiller sin rolle ved indlevelse, den anden (Midtgaard) ved erindring, da hun spiller sig selv i en virkelig historie. det vigtige er om oplevelsen af begge umiddelbart efter hinanden som i biografen i Allinge udvider forståelsen af begge kvinder hver for sig. Så jeg anbefaler publikum at se begge film, og jeg tror, man forstår, hvad jeg mener. At begge værker er autentiske dramaer, men at begge værker også kan ses som dokumentarfilm om to dygtige skuespillere på arbejde.

Danmark, 2017, 90 min.

http://www.kulturbunkeren.dk/cph-pix17-en-frygtelig-kvinde/ (Kulturbunkerens anmeldelse af En frygtelig kvinde)

http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4026/ (Filmkommentarens anmeldelse af En fremmed flytter ind)

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FOLKEBIO

Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program)

Magnificent7 Andy Goldsworthy

No need to state that Thomas Riedelsheimer’s film on and with Goldsworthy, “Leaning into the Wind” is masterly done. A great artist filmed by a great cameraperson and photographer.

But what I was thinking of, watching the film last night at Magnificent7 in Belgrade, is the inspiration Goldsworthy is giving us. SEE, ENJOY THE WORLD we are living in, while we are here on this planet, and PLAY with nature. The artist has this wonderful childish way of taking leaves from the trees to put them on his hands or let them decorate the stairs in the city or flow in the water or… you can see that he enjoys it like when our grandchildren proudly take a leaf from the tree in the garden or take a stone and decorate it. Just you wait, Samuel and Anna, 4 years old both of them, when we come home, we have new things we can do in the garden with the inspiration of an artist, who in his sixties have kept the child within him.

http://www.leaningintothewind.com/

Simon Lereng Wilmont: The Distant Barking of Dogs

Festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic write about the film:

“The Distant Barking of Dogs” started its impressive festival and award quest at the largest documentary film festival IDFA in Amsterdam where it won the First Appearance Award.

This is a film that follows a wonderful author’s thread initiated in the unforgettable poetic achievement “Ivan’s Childhood” about a boy and a war, made by one of the greatest film art masters Andrei Tarkovski. The space is close to Tarkovsky’s, now Ukraine, but this time it happens today and the hero of the story is called Oleg. He has ten years and does what all the boys in the world do – he plays, goes to school, and most of all, he likes to wander and discover the world around him. And the world begins from his yard and the street and spreads endlessly through meadows, forests, along riverbanks. And in this world of beauty and secrets the most important places have his brother, friend and grandmother with a big heart. But the dark outline of the invisible, yet dramatically present, and dangerous war noise becomes equally important and fills a little, almost empty village. Moments in which everything turns into fear, while the film becomes even more a moving poetic antiwar story about the small and unprotected in the whirlwind of big events.

Simon Lereng Wilmont discreetly, boldly and devotedly follows the little hero in various everyday situations, creating extremely convincing collisions of carefree childhood and cruel threats of war. The camera is not merely a distant observer, but always an accomplice in permitted and secret boyish endeavors. A truly great feat of a young documentarist who breaks linguistic and cultural barriers to create a work of universal value using the language of film images.

Denmark, Sweden, Finland, 2017, 90 mins.

http://www.finalcutforreal.dk/distant-barking-of-dogs

FOLKEBIO 2/ Hjerter Dame

Mette-Ann Schepelern og Louise Detlevsen: HJERTER DAME / TORSDAG, 14. JUNI 16:30 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / film og debat

Ved premieren skrev jeg i min anmeldelse blandt andet, at her fortælles Lizette Risgaards biografi, det er en skildring, som når sine journalistiske højdepunkter, når hun i en personlig fortællestemme, vel konstrueret af et oprindeligt grundinterview, måske i samtaleform, fortæller tilbageskuende særdeles oprigtigt rent fagligt politisk og dertil menneskeligt ægte om sin oprindelige ambition om og plan for at komme til at sidde for bordenden under LO-ledelsens møder, og dertil åbent gør rede for, hvordan hun gennemførte sit forehavende og nu har nået sine foreløbige mål, formandsposten og trepartsaftalen med regeringen og arbejdsgiverforeningen. Jeg anbefaler filmen meget, og den skal bestemt ses nu, for det er lige nu, den er aktuel.

Danmark, 2018, 86 min.

http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4221/ (Filmkommentarens anmeldelse)

FOLKEBIO

Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program) 

Thomas Riedelsheimer: Leaning into the Wind

Two great artists – a sculptor who shapes nature and creates surreal scenes of reality, Andy Goldsworthy, and filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, meet again sixteen years later. Again, as in the big film “Rivers and tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time” they poetisize nature and create a fascinating work on the true sense of art.

From the urban landscapes of Edinburgh and London to the south of France and New England, we are exposed to street and nature sights that the sculptor Goldsworthy converts into incomparable works of land art, and the camera captures them as outstanding, highly aestheticised film images. The “Leaning into the Wind” conveys thoughts and ideas about art, artistic creation and process, and even more, tells a story of the relationship between man and nature. And this is where the true primeval saga of the great love of a passionate fighter for nature begins – environmental activist Goldsworthy touches every stone, every grass, petal, branch, every drop of water as a precious being and within it recognizes the internal pulsation that permeates the planet. And these touches, followed by the explosion of colors and unexpected shapes, create a nature in which man and space become one.

Riedelsheimer’s sophisticated filmmaking proceeds from breathtaking physical matter and goes beyond trying to reveal the ideas that move the artists. And before our very eyes these ideas are transformed into remarkable forms pervaded by the rhythms of nature.

UK, Germany, 2018, 93 mins.

http://www.leaningintothewind.com/

www.magnificent7.org  

FOLKEBIO 1/ #MeToo-mosaik

Meta Film: #METOO-MOSAIK / TORSDAG, 14. JUNI 14:00 / FolkeBio Lindeplads 2B Allinge / videoer og debat

De 100 små film kan streames og de kan vælges i den rækkefølge, jeg får lyst til, og jeg tøver lidt, føler mig nyfigen… nej, for det er jeg jo netop ikke. Helst ville jeg springe dette kollektive værk over, det kommer jo ikke mig ved. Eller? Jeg kigger lige efter og rammes af, at de dokumentariske beretninger og vidneudsagn spilles. En skuespiller tager sig af historien, og det gør noget godt ved den, det private bliver ved det kunstneriske advokatur alment, skuespillerens empati bevæger mig.

Fra FolkeBios program: ”#MeToo bevægelsen startede i denne omgang i filmbranchen, og nu hvor bolden landede på vores boldbane, så sparker 100 engagerede skuespillere og Produktionsselskabet Meta Film hermed bolden videre til resten af samfundet.

Meta Film har produceret denne filmiske #MeToo mosaik, for at belyse og skabe forståelse for at sexisme og seksuelle magtudøvelser finder sted i alle brancher og i samfundet generelt.

100 skuespillere genfortæller hver én #MeToo beretning fra kvinder og mænd, som har oplevet sexismen i dens forskellige afskygninger. #MeToo mosaikken byder på historier fra parkeringsvagten, slagtereleven, professoren, den studerende, rengøringshjælperen, det unge sportstalent, psykologen, spejderen, stykgodschaufføren, asylansøgeren, lægen og historier fra mange andre fag samt hverdagshistorier fra privatsfæren.” (dkmetoo.dk)

www.dkmetoo.dk (om filmprojektet + streaming af de 100 korte genfortællinger)

Danmark 2018, 100 genfotællinger, hver vel et par minutter. Medvirkende: 100 skuespillere. Produktion: Meta Film. Distribution: www.dkmetoo.dk (streaming)

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Det Danske Filminstitut inviterer under Folkemødet i Allinge 2018 til film og debat i og omkring FolkeBio, den tidligere lade på Lindeplads 2B, Allinge. (K16 i programmet) / For yderligere oplysninger kontakt Susanna Neimann, kommunikationschef for Det Danske Filminstitut på mail: susannan@dfi.dk og telefon: +4541191540 eller Anders Riis-Hansen, filmkonsulent på mail: andersrh@dfi.dk og telefon: +4540459660 

https://www.dfi.dk/nyheder/temaer/folkebio-2018 (FolkeBios samlede program)

Magnificent7: Thomas Riedelsheimer

I still remember that day in 2005 when the very first screening of a European feature length documentary took place here in Belgrade – and the Magnificent7 festival started. We had no real idea of how many spectators, who would come to the Sava Centre. It was around 1000! Who had a wonderful experience watching Thomas Riedelsheimer’s “Touch the Sound”. Now he is back with “Leaning into the Wind”, again a film about an artist, actually the second one about Andy Goldsworthy, the first one was “Rivers and Tides”. “Leaning into the Wind” is the title.

Here are some words from the director’s website:

“In 2011, during a shoot in Scotland, I met Andy Goldsworthy again. It had been ten years since we released Rivers and Tides and we had not seen each other in the interim. From the very first moment I felt like no time has passed at all – it felt as though we had just waved farewell a few days before. It felt intimate immediately and I became aware of my never-ending interest in this man and his work. People who know “Rivers and Tides” think they know Andy Goldsworthy. And so we both felt that adding a new perspective to him and his work would be fascinating.

“It has been a great time, an unforgettable experience. LEANING INTO THE WIND offers a different angle, a different perspective, another perception on many levels. It is not only an expansion of the former film but stands by itself. Another moment in time, of Andy´s life – and of my life.”

http://www.leaningintothewind.com/