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Film & Kunst: "Vermeer - Reise ins Licht"
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In the Film & Art series, a cooperation between Cinema Quadrat and Kunsthalle Mannheim, an exciting documentary film about Jan Vermeer - and about his special painting technique.
VERMEER - JOURNEY INTO THE LIGHT
NLD 2023 D: Suzanne Raes. Documentary. 82 min. multiscreen U. FSK: 0
The documentary offers a fascinating insight into the preparations for a spectacular art exhibition and follows the museum staff involved: the few precious paintings by the Baroque painter Jan Vermeer were brought to Amsterdam from all over the world for the anniversary exhibition in 2023. The limited contingent of admission tickets was exhausted online after just a few hours. On the other hand, the film brings the paintings with their silent figures in light-filled rooms very close to the eye. Vermeer himself used an optical instrument that was modern at the time to prepare his works, a camera obscura, through which he viewed reality. The director demonstrates this carefully: a sunlit curtain casts not just one, but three shadows when viewed through the apparatus. The camera obscura is the forerunner of the camera and the film camera and Vermeer's depictions appear almost like small-format photographs. "Vermeer - Journey into the Light" allows us to immerse ourselves in a wonderful, silent world of images whose painterly origins lie at the beginning of today's media possibilities.
Introduction: Dr. Dorothee Höfert, art historian
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Price information:
10 € / 7 € reduced / 6 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.
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