Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk
IN MEMORIAM OSKAR SALOMONOWITZ 07/20/2008 - 10/27/2020 THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is a film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. Actually, it is a film about a thought of Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without…
Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk
IN MEMORIAM OSKAR SALOMONOWITZ 07/20/2008 - 10/27/2020 THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is a film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. Actually, it is a film about a thought of Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without Daniel Spoerri, actually it is mostly acted out by a child - a film namely about the thought of the eternal cycle, where even worn-out cooking spoons on the wall can live on as art. "A remarkable meditation on life." Thomas Taborsky, Die Furche "Anja Salomonowitz, together with Spoerri and her son Oskar, has made a subtle film in which one may laugh quietly and also cry a little." Ditta Rudle, Dance Magazine SYNOPSIS Daniel Spoerri arranges things into one of his assemblages as if he were contributing something to the order of life. Oskar Salomonowitz, the filmmaker's son, vividly brings the artist's thoughts closer to us, as if they were his own. The spoons of the late father of Anja Salomonowitz are added to the cycle of life. People die, things remain. By also updating Daniel Spoerri's past through the child, the film courageously undertakes a new documentary path of cinematic, biographical representation. Spoerri's father, Isaac Feinstein, was murdered in the Holocaust and Spoerri's life was shaped by this disappearance. In his work, he says, the things found at the flea market, which he collects and nails to the wall as compositions, no longer disappear. He has captured life for a moment. Daniel Spoerri creates art out of found objects that lose their function as soon as he integrates them into his works. Anja Salomonowitz makes films that are devoted to the visualisation of times and conflicts. THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT stands at the crossroad between both and intertwines their work in a very personal way. The film's title already suggests that it does not aim to represent anything, but wants to give: Salomonowitz thanks Spoerri with a portrait that binds his work with objects back to his biography again and again: Spoerri, born Feinstein, is the son of a Romanian Jew who was abducted and murdered. At the same time, the film looks ahead and extends its memory into the future by staging Salomonowitz' son Oskar as a stand-in and opposite of Spoerri. Nothing is lost but is merely reassembled in surprising ways. Dominik Kamalzadeh, Filmjournalist, Vienna
Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk
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IN MEMORIAM OSKAR SALOMONOWITZ 07/20/2008 - 10/27/2020 THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is a film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. Actually, it is a film about a thought of Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without Daniel Spoerri, actually it is mostly acted out by a child - a film namely about the thought of the eternal cycle, where even worn-out cooking spoons on the wall can live on as art. "A remarkable meditation on life." Thomas Taborsky, Die Furche "Anja Salomonowitz, together with Spoerri and her son Oskar, has made a subtle film in which one may laugh quietly and also cry a little." Ditta Rudle, Dance Magazine SYNOPSIS Daniel Spoerri arranges things into one of his assemblages as if he were contributing something to the order of life.
Oskar Salomonowitz, the filmmaker's son, vividly brings the artist's thoughts closer to us, as if they were his own. The spoons of the late father of Anja Salomonowitz are added to the cycle of life. People die, things remain.
By also updating Daniel Spoerri's past through the child, the film courageously undertakes a new documentary path of cinematic, biographical representation. Spoerri's father, Isaac Feinstein, was murdered in the Holocaust and Spoerri's life was shaped by this disappearance. In his work, he says, the things found at the flea market, which he collects and nails to the wall as compositions, no longer disappear.
He has captured life for a moment. Daniel Spoerri creates art out of found objects that lose their function as soon as he integrates them into his works. Anja Salomonowitz makes films that are devoted to the visualisation of times and conflicts.
THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT stands at the crossroad between both and intertwines their work in a very personal way. The film's title already suggests that it does not aim to represent anything, but wants to give: Salomonowitz thanks Spoerri with a portrait that binds his work with objects back to his biography again and again: Spoerri, born Feinstein, is the son of a Romanian Jew who was abducted and murdered. At the same time, the film looks ahead and extends its memory into the future by staging Salomonowitz' son Oskar as a stand-in and opposite of Spoerri.
Nothing is lost but is merely reassembled in surprising ways. Dominik Kamalzadeh, Filmjournalist, Vienna.