The White Ribbon is just - or just about to be - released here.
Planning on going, as I keep hearing Good Things.
I think Kiefer was quite aware of what he was mourning. The works
about Varus and his Hitler salutes suggest a certain troubled
direction...
xA
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, bobbi lurie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alison,
> Kiefer is the deepest voice for a generation but also it is like you say
> about mourning without knowing why. He takes art to the spiritual (i have
> grown to really dislike this word but i can't think of another). A mystery
> always lingers.
> Have you seen "The White Ribbon" by Haeneke? I see him as a hero in the same
> sense. A pure artist whose mission rises above any other consideration. The
> cinematography is as beautiful as even Tarkovsky's (this is a hard thing to
> say--it is taking a leap but I can't put him any lower than that). More
> amazing is the story. The subtle yet certain view of causes of fascism. xB
>
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Bobbi - much appreciated! The first piece I ever saw of
>> Kiefer's was Women of the Revolution, an amazing installation. Instant
>> mourning without knowing why. So much of the troubledness of
>> post-fascist Germany in his work. xA
>>
>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, bobbi lurie <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> > Alison, brava!
>> > This paragraph below excited me. I love Anselm Kiefer and Paul Celan is
>> my
>> > favorite poet. Tarkovsky is amazing--you are so right in calling his work
>> > poetry--he does something with imagery which transcends solidity--the
>> > ephemeral of poetry. Kiefer used Celan's "Todesfuge" which was the bane
>> of
>> > Celan's life as a poet.
>> > I love your piece--bobbi.
>> >
>> > I suppose it's no accident that the artists who most profoundly affect me
>> > are inspired by poetry: Kiefer, for example, has made many works inspired
>> by
>> > the poetry of Paul Celan. Tarkovsky's films are full of poems, mostly
>> > written by his father, Arseny Tarkosvky: Stalkercontains two, by Arseny
>> > Tarkovsky and Fyodor Tyutchev. Poetry influences the hypnotic rhythms of
>> > Tarkovsky's editing and the composition of his image-making, which draws
>> > from the imagism of Japanese poems. But these aesthetic decisions are
>> merely
>> > symptoms of his real concern, which is to dare to risk the raw matter of
>> > poetry itself.
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> By chance a a commenter reminded me today of this essay on Tarkovsky's
>> >> Stalker, in which I discuss, among other things, a particular
>> >> influence of poetry on film. Given recent discussions, it might
>> >> interest some of you.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/tarkovskys-stalker-poet-in-destitute.html
>> >>
>> >> xA
>> >>
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>> >
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