Dawn in the rise (film)
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| Original title | Dawn in the rise - Homage to Jacob Böhme |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 81 minutes |
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| Director |
Max Hopp , Jan Korthäuer, Ronald Steckel , Klaus Weingarten |
| script | Ronald Steckel |
| production | nootheater & organization to transform the cinema |
| music | Matthias Kirschke, Ronald Steckel |
| camera | Max Hopp, Jan Korthäuer |
| cut | Max Hopp, Jan Korthäuer, Ronald Steckel, Klaus Weingarten |
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Dawn in Sunrise - Hommage à Jacob Boehme is from the cooperation arising from four independent filmmakers film about the German mystic , philosopher and theosophist Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) from the year 2015, in which only the 400 year old original texts Jacob Boehme used become.
content
The film tells nothing of Jacob Boehme's dramatic biography and contains no historical representations or references. The town of Görlitz , where Böhme lived as a craftsman and was declared a heretic as an author , does not appear. Instead, all sequences are shot in the great outdoors and show an exemplary daily routine of the mystic . The film begins at night, shortly before dawn inside a house, and ends in the early evening of the next day in a wide field surrounded by forest. Apart from the figure of Jacob Boehme, wandering through the pictures, sometimes writing at a table, who is inconspicuously dressed and at the same time appears as a contemporary and historical person, there are no other actors and no dramatic plot. The walk through the day will be from one of the off spoken monologue accompanied where Jacob Boehme's vision of the cosmic man and his mission on this planet in Boehme's original, idiosyncratic language is expressed.
Film production
The Böhme actor Klaus Weingarten says about his approach to the figure of the writing man : “'You shouldn't play anyone.' I understood that I would not find my goal either as an actor or a performer, but only as a 'model' in the Bresson sense : through my pure 'empty' presence, through 'being'. "
The text recited from the off-set by Max Hopp , who was also responsible for the video design, is original quotations from Jacob Boehme's complete works, which go back to the wording of the complete edition published in Amsterdam in 1730 and so far the only complete edition in which the Philosophus Teutonicus recorded his mystical visions, breakthrough and enlightenment experiences on thousands of pages.
The film was developed by the four filmmakers Max Hopp, Jan Korthäuer, Ronald Steckel and Klaus Weingarten without the support of state film funding and in 2013/14 on 14 days of shooting without an additional team with minimal technical effort in HD video and on 16 mm film turned. Steadicam , wheelchair and an aerial work platform were used for the tracking shots . The post-production , also only realized by the four directors, took place in 2014 at the nootheater in Berlin. In total, the filmmakers worked on “Dawn in the Rise - Homage to Jacob Böhme” for four years.
reception
The world premiere took place on May 15, 2015 in the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau in Görlitz. Since then the film has wandered through numerous arthouse cinemas in the republic. In 2017, Dawn was an element of the exhibition “All in all. The world of thoughts of the mystical philosopher Jacob Böhme ”from the Dresden State Art Collections in the Dresden Residenzschloss . In 2019 the film was shown at the exhibition "Light in Darkness - The Mystical Philosophy of Jacob Böhme" in Coventry Cathedral in Coventry England .
Movie reviews
Peter von Becker writes in the Tagesspiegel : “In the film, emerging from the blackness of night, you see the actor and filmmaker Klaus Weingarten (whose face actually reminds of Böhme's images): at a desk that sometimes stands in the middle of the forest by a body of water the mosquitos dance in the light like shimmering stars; sometimes a little mouse scurries through a bright cellar (with a desk), sometimes Weingarten, as a descendant of Boehme, walks across a meadow and becomes a black point on the horizon. But it is never lost here, because man and mouse, man and nature are, as it were, suspended in the quotations from Boehme's theosophical work ... "
André Sokolowski speaks on Friday of his impression of “an astonishingly beautiful film ... you catch yourself suddenly trusting God, you hope and you want general and (even better) private consolation. In any case - without irony - I would like human assistance, if I ever really needed it, in this way: yes, that would be ideal. The homage to Jacob Böhme is an event! ”.
Peter Uehling writes in the Berliner Zeitung : “The film is more like a musical composition, it consists of a well thought-out interplay of language, image, sound and silence, which nevertheless leads the viewer to an experience: If he is able to open up, he has on Had a mystical experience at the end - or at least received an inkling. The film may be experimental in its form, but it has found an ideal implementation for its subject ... in its own, unprecedented form. "
Jens Heisterkamp writes the following lines in the magazine Info3 : “You shouldn't expect a documentation, it's not about life and those difficulties that Boehme's seerhood brought with it, but about staging the mystical content. A downright hymn film is one that is composed meditatively and wants to be seen (and heard) meditatively. For the opening sequence, wonderful thoughts by Boehme about the creation of Adam , the primordial man, were chosen; they are completely permeated by theosophical, even anthroposophical spirit, because they raise humanity to the highest level. All of Böhme's texts are spoken cautiously and alertly, and whoever is sensitive to them will be completely drawn into the spell of the recurring triad of God, nature and man after just a few minutes. [...] The age of materialism is certainly not over yet, but it feels like a harbinger of the predicted change of epochs that a film like this is possible today. "
Awards
The reason for the “German Film Spirit Award 2016” states: “Your perhaps greatest spirit is almost completely unknown to Germans. The film Morgenröte im Aufgang brings us in an 'astonishingly beautiful' way ( Friday ) the magic of that 'miracle phenomenon in human history' ( Schelling ), by the Silesian shoemaker Jacob Böhme. No documentary, no feature film, no essay - a peculiar cinematic seduction to experience our second reality. The film, which was made over four years of work by the filmmakers without any support from state film funding, may demand a lot from the viewer and it may only be accessible to a small audience, but it is of such timeless truth that it is also available in 100 Years and more, when everything else is not even known by name, will have lost none of its radiance. "
Web links
- Dawn in the rise - Hommage à Jacob Böhme at Filmportal.de
- Suhrkamp / Insel »Dawn in the rise« - Hommage à Jacob Böhme (trailer)
- absolut media film | Dawn in the rise
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Dawn in the rise - Homage to Jacob Böhme
- Nootheater
- Organization for the conversion of the cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ suhrkamp, Interview Marcelle De Michiel, Ronald Steckel Man is a double agent , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ Klaus Weingarten: About the impossibility of portraying Jacob Böhme ( memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), International Jacob Böhme Society.
- ↑ log book suhrkamp A miracle phenomenon in the history of humanity , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ evolve Jacob Böhme - the great unknown mystic , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden All in all. The thoughts of the mystical philosopher Jacob Böhme , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ Light in Darkness. The Mystical Philosophy of Jacob Böhme. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, April 26, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Tagesspiegel, December 31, 2015 The Pious and the Barbarians , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ The Friday Dawn in Rising | Hommage à Jacob Böhme , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung Filmgeist Award for a film about the German mystic Jacob Böhme , accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ Jens Heisterkamp: Jakob Böhme - a German prophet. In: info3-verlag.de. 2017, accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Babylon Berlin German FILMGEIST Prize 2016: Dawn in the rise (Hommage à Jacob Böhme) , accessed on September 17, 2019.