Stroking concrete - an encounter with Engelbert Kremser
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Stroking concrete - an encounter with Engelbert Kremser |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rafael Fuster Pardo |
| script | Rafael Fuster Pardo |
| production | Fuster-Hoheisel-Ulrichs film production |
| music | Ed Van Otterdyke |
| camera | Hanspeter Ulrichs |
| cut | Rafael Fuster Pardo |
| occupation | |
Stroking concrete - an encounter with Engelbert Kremser is a film by director Rafael Fuster Pardo , shot in Potsdam , Bremen , Lübeck , Barcelona and Berlin .
action
From a very personal point of view - before he studied film, Fuster Pardo was a building designer for ten years - the film provides a detailed portrait of the architect and painter Engelbert Kremser and his work.
Kremser, inventor of Earthwork architecture, remained a lonely rebel in Germany against the architecture of the right angle. As a representative of organic architecture , with role models such as Antoni Gaudí , Hans Scharoun and Hermann Finsterlin , Kremser achieved expressive buildings that were highly recognized by experts, such as the Café am See in the Britzer Garten Berlin, as well as he as a restorer and renovator of the Botanical Garden in Berlin treated Alfred Koerner's work with respect .
The following projects are presented in detail in the film:
- His first construction, a roof terrace in Berlin-Wannsee, which is today destroyed,
- Children's playhouse in the Märkisches Viertel ,
- Show greenhouses in the Botanical Garden Berlin ,
- Plant Protection Office Berlin,
- Schoolyard in the school center on Drebberstrasse, Bremen-Hemelingen ,
- Trullo and children's house Barbara in Lübeck,
- Building landscape with a café by the lake for the 1985 Federal Garden Show in Berlin ( Britzer Garten ).
The film presents Kremser's experimental painting and the connection to his architecture and shows an exhibition in the house on Lützowplatz as well as his photomontages for the exhibition “Architettura fatta di Terra” 1970 at the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura in Rome.
Integrated into the story of the film are architectural-historical questions to Manfred Sack , the long-time architecture critic of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , who, as a contemporary witness, introduces the viewer into the historical context of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Film language
As the film progresses, the film-language syntax changes: sometimes an autobiographical report (the prologue), sometimes an interview “Witnesses of the Century” in the style of Günter Gaus (the ironic interview with Dr. Manfred Sack), then a documentary photo montage (the construction of the children's house), suddenly an immediate workshop discussion (Botanical garden), and later a music clip (the Italian exhibition), or a severe, with original sound backed -Atmosphären architecture assembly without voiceover in which the environmental and interior building noises a disparate melody, as with Tatis Trafic (the plant protection office).
Every scene works, plays, satirizes film samples. A dramaturgy of heightening develops (as an equivalent to the Egyptian processional architecture, Kremser's model).
At the end of the film, the montage fantasizes in a virtuoso dance of music, documentary, immediate conversation and oil paintings (the Burgos Cathedral painting sequence).
Award
In 2006 the film was part of the exhibition Incitement to Space. Incitement to space in the Deutsches Architektur Museum Frankfurt (DAM).
literature
Interview about the film with Rafael Fuster Pardo in:
- Engelbert Kremser. Earth architecture - an innovative construction method . Humans and Architecture 71/72, 5/2010. ISSN 1616-4024