Manfred Wilhelms

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Manfred Wilhelms is a film author, director, cameraman, photographer and visual artist. He studied painting and photography as well as film in Berlin .

Film: Rusty Pictures

Wilhelms achieved fame with the film Rusty Pictures, produced between 1990 and 1992 . The film celebrated its world premiere at the International Forum for New Cinema as part of the 1992 Berlinale .

The film received two international film awards. The first was the 1992 "Grand Premier Prix" of the Festival du film sur l'art in Paris and the second was the " Prix ​​du meilleur Essai " of the Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal in 1993, shown at LOUVRE, Paris in 1993 The film was u. a. presented at festivals in Sao Paulo, Bombay, Tehran and Tokyo. It shows a motif journey by the painter Fritz Kreidt through the lignite areas of the former GDR in the vicinity of Leipzig , Leuna and Brandenburg . With this film, Wilhelms goes back to the origins of cinema, as they had developed in the silent film era, when a train entering the station was still a sensation for the audience.

Filmography (selection)

Producer, director, camera, editor

  • Against the rhythm / youth out of space, first performance: July 21, 2002 at hessen 3
  • Running to live, first performance: May 2nd, 1997 on WDR

Producer, director, screenplay, camera and editor

  • RUSTY PICTURES . World premiere: Berlin International Film Festival, February 1992, in the International Forum of New Films
  • The Flaneur of Berlin - A Tale of Two Cities . World premiere: The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) , New York , on November 7th and 9th, 2005, in New York
  • In the light of the big city - Berlin fragment . World premiere: February 1998, International Film Festival Berlin, International Forum of New Films, in the series "New German Films"
  • The legend of Potsdamer Platz . World premiere: Berlin International Film Festival, February 2001, in the International Forum of New Films, as the “longest and most visually brilliant film of the festival” (Ulrich Gregor in the preface to the program brochure of the International Forum)

Important performances and exhibitions (selection)

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Berlin International Film Festival, 1992: RUSTY PICTURES:

Berlin International Film Festival, 2001: THE LEGEND OF POTSDAMER PLATZ:

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  • April 4, 2002 to April 17, 2002: RETROSPECTIVE / FILM-WERKSCHAU in the ARSENAL cinema, Berlin. With a lecture on April 11, 2002:
  • THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE EYE - Via photographic film and digital imaging techniques . In free appropriation of Aby Warburg's declaration of "HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE EYE".
  • Visible past. September 30, 2006 to December 10, 2006. Multimedia exhibition in the industrial monument and industrial museum Kraftwerk Plessa, one of the oldest lignite power stations in Europe, built 1926–1927 in Plessa / Brandenburg.
  • Exhibition on brown coal landscapes and industrial buildings: film and 85 large-format photographs by Manfred Wilhelms, as well as paintings by Fritz Kreidt . Manfred Wilhelms was responsible for the idea and conception, he was also the initiator, organizer and curator of the exhibition and the exhibiting artist as a photographer and filmmaker.
  • IM LICHTBILD DER GROSSTADT - Berlin — Pictures of a City, 1998. Germany. Manfred Wilhelms. 82 min., At the BERLIN IN LIGHTS Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Friday, November 9, 2007, 8:30 pm - Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
  • "Rusty Pictures" - industrial landscapes in the area of ​​the GDR, 1990/91, DEUTSCHES TECHNIKMUSEUM BERLIN
  • Special exhibition in the gallery of the photo technology permanent exhibition, 7 July to 31 October 2010

Web links

BERLINALE: International Film Festival BERLIN 1992 - Archive / Forum 1992, Film: RUSTY PICTURES:

BERLINALE: International Film Festival BERLIN 2001 - Archive / Forum 2001, Film: THE LEGEND OF POTSDAMER PLATZ:

personal data
SURNAME Wilhelms, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film author, director, cameraman, photographer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century