Big Time (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Big time |
| Original title | Big time |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish , English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
| production | Sara Stockmann |
| music | Michael Andrews |
| camera | Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
| cut |
Cathrine Ambus , Bobbie Esra Geelmuyden Pertan , Kaspar Astrup Schröder |
Big Time is a Danish long-term documentary by the Danish documentary filmmaker and director Kaspar Astrup Schröder from 2017 . In it he portrays the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels .
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Kaspar Astrup Schröder accompanied Bjarke Ingels for five years in everyday life and at work. Ingels grew up in a 1960s bungalow with a flat roof on a piece of lake property that Ingels climbed as a child, he reports on a visit to his parents' house. Perhaps his love for walkable lawn roofs on his buildings stems from his childhood.
The stage of the star architect is the boardroom of the client, his employees love him. You see him with celebrities, like when you meet the Danish royal couple.
It shows the plans for Copenhill ( Amager Slope ) in Copenhagen, where a ski slope is to be built on the roof of a waste-to-energy plant. The chimney emits smoke, according to Ingel's ideas it should emit rings of smoke, which is technically not easy to implement. Ingel's office is setting itself a task that, as in other cases, is not required by the client.
In New York he is building a branch of his office Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). There he designed the residential building VIA 57 West in Manhattan. He is charged with the redesign and construction of the Two World Trade Center . His work in the USA has consequences for his office headquarters in Copenhagen: There his employees find that the absence of the boss has reduced the number of orders in Denmark.
A recurring motif is an animated brain scan . On the one hand it symbolizes the creativity of the architect, on the other hand the worries that he has about his health because of his headaches. Ingels ponders famous architects who died early, realizing that any building he works on could be the last.
Production and festival performances
The film was made with the support of Det Danske Filminstitut . It was produced by Sonntag Pictures ApS. Big Time had its world premiere on May 3, 2017 in Denmark. In the premiere year it was shown at several film festivals, including in Milan, the Nordic Film Days , New York, Amsterdam and Tehran. In Germany, the film was released on February 8, 2018.
reception
Marietta Schwarz, who saw the film for the Kulturmagazin Kompressor from Deutschlandfunk Kultur , had the impression of an image film that Bjarke Ingels might have commissioned. A development will be worked out in the last third when Ingels worries about his health. She found that Ingels was also working on his fame, on his image for posterity. She was fascinated that Ingels had retained something childlike: "One likes to be amazed with him."
Brigitte Werneburg called the film a "star cut" in the daily newspaper . More relevant for her would have been a film that "started out from the 'Two World Trade Center' and illuminated the complex ownership structure and the disputes over building finance, about heights and floors at Ground Zero".
In the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung Matthias Halbig wrote that Kaspar Astrup Schröder had delivered an overly glossy portrait, a film building, silver and cool. It also has a dramatic peak, "when Ingels' work seems to be torpedoed by an illness".
"Excitingly told" said Ulrich Sonnenschein at epd film . Schröder is not looking for intimacy with his protagonist, he is “more interested in his buildings”.
Web links and sources
- Big Time on the Danish Film Institute website (Danish, English )
- Big Time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Big Time at scope.dk (Danish, with Danish reviews)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for Big Time . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Big Time on the Danish Film Institute website, accessed February 9, 2018
- ↑ Big Time ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ARD-Mediathek, February 8, 2018 (Podcast, heard on February 10, 2018, available until August 17, 2018)
- ↑ Brigitte Werneburg: A chimney spits smoke rings. In: taz.de. February 8, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Halbig: "Big Time" - The man who scratches the clouds. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 8, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Ulrich Sonnenschein: Review of Big Time. In: epd film. January 18, 2018, accessed February 10, 2018 .
