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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010)

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Starting in 2000, German artist Anselm Kiefer began constructing a series of large elaborate structures, comprising 48 buildings, a labyrinth of tunnels, bridges, lakes and towers. The film bears witness to an incredible creative process.

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Sophie Fiennes
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Credited cast:
Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer ... Self
Klaus Dermutz Klaus Dermutz ... Interviewer
Bill Katz Bill Katz ... Self - (Royal Academy Exhibition Designer)
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The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hill-studio estate in the South of France. Written by Sophie Fiennes

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Documentary

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Interviewer: Do you enjoy the process of making?
Anselm Kiefer: Umm... it's difficult. And sometimes it's a failure. Because, at any state of a painting, you have one-hundred possibilities... and you have to chose one. It's a war in your head, you know? And when I look two or three days later - I think it's shit. It happens, you know? Because you are in a certain situation, you think - 'Oh, now I got something.' And then you have to wait, to calm down. And sometimes the contrary happens too. You think 'Ohhh, I worked so ...
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Lontano
Composed by György Ligeti
Performed by Berliner Philharmoniker (as The Berlin Philharmonic), conducted by Jonathan Nott
From the album "Ligeti Project II", © Teldec Classics International / Warner Classics & Jazz, Warner Music UK Ltd.
© B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz, 1969. By Arrangement with Schott Music Ltd.
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Strange environments
8 December 2017 | by rumblechrisSee all my reviews

Deeply meditative film, by which I don't mean boring. It's a film that demands a lot of concentration. Aselm Kiefer is a German artist working in France. The film is quite simple in trying to show and not tell us how Kiefer works and the strange artworks he produces in what looks like an abandoned village. Are they really artworks? Some of the things he makes are difficult to categorize. Sculptures that look like piles of rubble, because they are. Or are they? Does the artist's involvement make them other? Reminded me of Tarkovsky at times with all the underground scenes of strange environments.


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Country:

France | Netherlands | UK

Language:

French | English | German

Release Date:

27 October 2011 (Germany) See more »

Also Known As:

Wasze miasta trawa zarosna See more »

Filming Locations:

Barjac, France

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Box Office

Budget:

EUR600,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$7,272, 14 August 2011

Gross USA:

$51,301

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$70,256
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Dolby Digital

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Color

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2.35 : 1
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