Trailer
Year
2007
Length
3x 26 min
Director
Marco Wilms
Light Art
Since the early twentieth century artificial light has illuminated our streets, shop windows, advertising signs and houses. We inhabit cities and gardens of light, and a paradise of artificial light has evolved in the aftermath of our victory over darkness.
In the last 100 years electrical lighting has revolutionized our world to an extent matched by few other technologies. Since the early twentieth century artificial light has illuminated our streets, shop windows, advertising signs and houses. We inhabit cities and gardens of light, and a paradise of artificial light has evolved in the aftermath of our victory over darkness. As a medium for visual messages artificial light soon attracted the attention of artists, who have worked with light bulbs, fluorescent lamps, neon lighting and highpower searchlights since the 1920s. The focus of art has shifted dramatically from the illusory representation of natural light towards the actual utilisation of artificial lighting. Light is a compelling and spectacular medium, and most viewers are unable to ignore the visual stimulus emanating from light art installations. Playing on the act of seeing, and the patterns and experience of human perception, light art provokes an immediate reaction in its viewers. Artists have illuminated landscapes and created autonomous, luminous objects and spaces. Light ambience, light kinetics, reflection, graphics, logo-culture, and the play of art with natural phenomenon are themes around which gifted international light artists have created works of unbelievable intensity; interior installations on an occasionally grand scale, but in particular installations in exterior settings around a variety of artistic and architectural projects.
Directed by
Marco Wilms
Series Concept
Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Director of Photography
Jörg Jeshel
Henning Brümmer
Marco Wilms
Editing
Christian Fibikar
Producer
Gaby Lingke
Executive producer
Christian Beetz
Commissioning Editors
Martin Pieper (ZDF/arte)
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
- Press photos
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
