Hundertwasser's rainy day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hundertwasser's rainy day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Schamoni |
| script | Peter Schamoni |
| production | Peter Schamoni for Peter Schamoni Filmproduktion |
| music | Arik Brewer |
| camera |
Josef Kaufmann Norbert Stern Jean-Jacques Tarbès |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
Hundertwasser's Regentag is a German documentary film by Peter Schamoni from 1972 .
action
The film follows artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and presents his working method and his artistic and personal views. The beginning shows Hundertwasser, who is lying on an ice floe not far from his mill in the Waldviertel near Vienna. The meltwater flows under the ice floe and Hundertwasser explains that the water attracts him. Three years ago he bought a ship that he christened Rainy Day and that he wants to take into the water.
Hundertwasser sums up his path as a painter. In the beginning nobody wanted to accept his pictures even as a gift, later he received a little money for his works. However, the demand increased and with it the price of the paintings, without his being able to do anything about it. As demand exceeded his production over time - around 700 pictures he regards as a rather narrow complete oeuvre - he switched to producing prints, increasingly in large numbers. He says that painting lives by itself, a sculpture lives through light.
Hundertwasser's relationship to architecture is presented. He explains that for him every person has three skins: their own skin, clothing and architecture. In architecture he turns strictly against straight lines and angles and prefers buildings to be formed by organic things, such as moss or mold. Since he cannot implement his own architectural ideas in Vienna, which is stifling creativity, he lets them resurrect in art. Central motifs of his works are the spiral, which he sees as the beginning of life, onion domes, fences and mouths. His pictures are created like in a dream. Often, when he wakes up after a picture has been completed, he can no longer understand the meaning of what has been drawn in all its details. Hundertwasser emphasizes the importance of color for his work and describes a dull rainy day as his favorite: On these days he can work and the colors of the surroundings only appear when it rains. In the sunshine you only notice the contrasts of the surroundings, which is why he also prefers the color-saturated pictures of painters from the north to the high-contrast but low-color pictures of painters from the south.
His difficult relationship with people is also evident. He has a complicated relationship with women - Doris Kunstmann can be seen at his side in the film - he describes himself as a weak man and prefers the loneliness of society, which considers him an eccentric and revolutionary. His mother, who was the only member of the family to survive during the Nazi era, also paints. He likes her "primitive" way of painting, as it allows her to express things that he can no longer implement as an "intellectual" painter. He received a plate from his father, which he decorated with lots of colorful flowers and which often served as inspiration. He reports to his mother about the current status of his ship Regentag . After several modifications, the ship, which he painted according to his ideas, can set sail. For Hundertwasser there are no limits at sea, only the horizon. For him, this is what you can cling to - the rest has to be invented, also and above all in his works of art.
production
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day was filmed from 1969 to 1971 in Vienna , in the Hahnsäge near Roiten in the Waldviertel, Lower Austria, in Rovinj and in Venice and the surrounding area. Hundertwasser's comments are played along with the documentary images. The documentary recordings, in turn, are mounted in places in Hundertwasser's paintings and thus show motifs and their real originals. The trick shots come from Peter Rosenwanger .
In the film Arik Brauer's songs Believe in the angle and live in a round house and Wie a Hund can be heard.
The film was published in a long and a 22-minute short version. The Constantin distributor brought out Hundertwasser's Regentag as a side program for Niki de Saint Phalles and Peter Whitehead's Daddy .
criticism
Critics praised the documentary: “Peter Schamoni shot the complete Hundertwasser portrait, so to speak. Friedensreich's magical puzzle world in one color film - that's 45 minutes of hope and forgetting. ”The camera work was also mentioned, including a shot of the sailing ship in Veneto :“ These long shots, the gliding ship seen through the wood on the bank, have a truly fabulous charm. They are beautiful, beautiful in the frowned upon sense; they create emotion and zest for life at the same time, a fulfilled dream. A 'success story' that really happened, ”said Hilde Spiel and the FAZ .
Awards
At the 1972 German Film Prize, Hundertwasser's Regentag received the Gold Film for Best Short Film .
The film was shown as the official contribution of the Federal Republic to the 1972 Cannes International Film Festival in the short films category .
In 1973 was Hundertwasser's Rainy Day for an Oscar in the category Best Short Documentary nominated.
literature
- Hundertwasser's rainy day . In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni. Film Pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 42-47.
Web links
- Hundertwasser's Rainy Day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hundertwasser's rainy day at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Thom in: Abendzeitung, Munich . Quoted from Hundertwasser's rainy day . In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni. Film Pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, p. 42.
- ^ Hilde Spiel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 18, 1972. Quoted from Hundertwasser's rainy day . In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni. Film Pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, p. 42.