Finding Vivian Maier

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Movie
German title Finding Vivian Maier
Original title Finding Vivian Maier
Country of production United States
original language English , French
Publishing year 2013
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director John Maloof , Charlie Siskel
script John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
production John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
music J. Ralph
camera John Maloof
cut Aaron Wickenden

Finding Vivian Maier is a 2013 cinema documentary directed by John Maloof . It is about the life and work of the photographer Vivian Maier .

content

The film follows John Maloof in his processing of the work of the photographer Vivian Maier. At the beginning, Maloof explains how he bought a box of negatives at an auction while looking for old photos for a publication on local history. The pictures turned out to be unsuitable for his project, but he liked them, so he began looking for the photographer, whom he knew nothing of but her name. His research leads him to former acquaintances of Vivian Maier, who has since died, as well as to families in which she had worked as a housekeeper and nanny. A picture of the photographer is composed bit by bit from interviews with them.

Awards

Finding Vivian Maier won 2nd place in the Panorama Audience Award in the documentary film category at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival . In 2015 he was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award and the Academy Award in the category Best Documentary . At the IDA Documentary Awards of the International Documentary Association he was nominated in the categories "Best Feature" and "Best Writing", of which he won the latter.

Reviews

Finding Vivian Maier was largely positively received by the critics, primarily because of the "two unbelievable stories" - Maloof's "paper chase" and Maier's extraordinary life. Die Zeit also observed the same “obsession” with Maloof that distinguished Vivian Maier. It is "an anti-Facebook, anti-glamor story, an affront for everyone who is attached to the drip of the promising cultural business." Also Gabriele Summen, who in the Jungle World from the "noticeably enthusiastically produced documentary film." " Felt reminded of Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man , convinced Maloof's film, which explores Maier's life" sensitively, self-critical and not smoothing out contradictions.

The NDR stated that Maloof was doing a “laborious detective work”, whose film reconstructed Maier's life “with astonishment”, with numerous photographs as well as film and sound recordings, and “thus draws the image of a disturbing personality who, however, was also a great photographer”.

According to Verena Lueken ( FAZ ), the film corresponds to Maier's work: “There is a self-portrait of Vivian Maier. Her Roleiflex (sic!) Hangs around her neck . But the woman herself can only be seen halfway. One side disappears, so to speak, because a shadow falls on the figure and splits it in half. And that's what this film is about: that half of a woman disappears. And shoot with the other half - because in contrast to the photographers with whom she is now being compared, one thing is very clear: she was not interested in preserving moments. But about killing the world. "

According to Tagesspiegel , “the attempt to turn a phantom back into a person” turned into a “fast-paced, never boring film”.

On Spiegel-Online , Hannah Pilarczyk praised the fact that the film “allows work and biography [...] to stand side by side without reconciliation”: “That is not a small thing at a time when there is an increasing attempt to coincide artists' lives and creative work to bring that a final judgment can be made on both. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Finding Vivian Maier . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ BAFTA Awards - Film in 2015 , accessed January 25, 2015
  3. ↑ The 87th Academy Awards | 2015 , accessed January 25, 2015
  4. ↑ 30th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Winners , accessed January 25, 2015
  5. ↑ a b Susanne Mayer: Gifted and well hidden , Die Zeit from June 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Mirjam Kappes: The Secret of the Undiscovered Street Photographer , Kultur-Port, June 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ Tamsin Blanchard: Vivian Maier: the nanny with the secret life as a photographer , The Daily Telegraph , July 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ Mark Brown: Vivian Maier rarely seen photographs , The Guardian, July 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Gabriele Summen: The Woman Who Fell From Heaven , Jungle World , No. 26, June 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Julia Jacob: The Discovery of a Street Photographer ( Memento from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), NDR from June 24, 2014.
  11. ↑ Verena Lueken: Video film review: The world soul in the picture box , FAZ from June 25, 2014.
  12. ↑ Christian Schröder: A Phantom, a Person , Tagesspiegel from June 26, 2014.
  13. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Rediscovered US photographer: The riddle of Vivian Maier. , Spiegel Online from June 27, 2014.