June 18, 21:15pm ...

Show times in Cologne. Germany - Filmhaus Kino Köln:
1.7. 17.30 Uhr
2.7. 19.30 Uhr
3.7. 17.30 Uhr
4.7. 16.00 und 21.30 Uhr
5.7. 18.00 Uhr
6.7. 19.30 Uhr
7.7. 17.30 Uhr
8.7. 21:30 Uhr ...

Gottfried Helnwein zählt zu den umstrittensten Gegenwartskünstlern. Seine Bilder von körperlich und seelisch misshandelten Kindern verstören mit ihrer Schockästhetik. Claudia Schmid hat Helnwein über zwei Jahre begleitet und ein intensives Porträt über einen Kompromisslosen geschaffen. ...

8th Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival
June 27-30, 2012
The "Filmmakers Film Festival" ...

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Premiere:
SO 10.05. | 14.00 | Pinakothek der Moderne, Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium
MI 13.5. um 17:00 Gasteig Vortragsaal ...

Gottfried Helnwein is an artist of clear statements, uninhibited and idiosyncratic. He confronts us with the dark sides of human nature. Silently but mercilessly he uses the fate of the innocent child to bring before our eyes the human capacity for suffering, making the beholder a passive, and indeed active, accomplice to injury and abuse. Helnwein is one of the world’s best-known and at the same time most controversial German-speaking artists of the post-war period. Helnwein is an artist who thinks in political terms, analyzing present and historical world events and revealing, there too, the structures of power and violence. All his life he has addressed the issue of the cruel mechanisms of the Nazi period. His pictures are an ongoing appeal against collective amnesia, deliberate or otherwise. ...

Documentary
116 Min. Director: Claudia Schmid
'Die Stille der Unschuld' - Der Künstler Gottfried Helnwein (Germany 2009)
with English subtitles ...

A documentary film, from Los Angeles to Tel-Aviv following Gottfried Helnwein's journey in the process of creating the visuals for the new Israeli opera. ...

45 Minuten ...

"Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it.
I think in anything that is really relevant and emotional art, there is some kind of a mirror that people experience. I don't think that you can recognize a feeling from something that you look at unless it's part of yourself, and so when someone is willing to take on the sadness, the irony, the ugliness and the beauty in the kind of way that Gottfried Helnwein does.
Not all of Gottfried's work is on a canvas.
A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this.
This level of work is earned."
Sean Penn ...

Teaser trailer for the Marilyn Manson-intended, written and directed, feature-length film titled 'Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll'. Lily Cole, the main actress in Tim Burton's recent 'Alice in Wonderland', was originally cast as Manson's Alice for 'Phantasmagoria'. This teaser also features real-life twin sisters engaging in questionable acts and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein and the bird-face masked character and white gloved Lewis Carroll impresario, is Marilyn Manson. ...

Film 25 min
Premiere at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles,
on November 9th, 2003, for the 65th anniversary of “Kristallnacht”. ...

The collaboration between Helnwein and the late poet and playwright Hanoch Levin is at the center of this documentary. Helnwein is hired as the production designer for an Israeli opera adaptation of Levin’s play, Dreaming Child. While the two had never met when Levin was alive, the opportunity to meld their work seems almost serendipitous. Helnwein believes their artistic vision is so much the same that he is obligated to stay true to Levin’s work.
Director Lisa Kirk Colburn does an excellent job of portraying the process of an original opera production, particularly from the eyes of Helnwein, the production designer chosen specifically for the perspicacity he has for his art form. ...

As its title suggests, Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child chooses to focus on the Austrian art superstar that the Opera brought in to make its sets and costumes. The movie’s fortunate that said superstar, an eccentric with a thick Werner Herzog accent is as good as he is at painting. ...

When the powers behind the 2010 Tel Aviv production of Hanoch Levin's Holocaust opera The Child Dreams sought a designer, it seemed like plain sailing to bring on the Austrian provocateur Gottfried Helnwein, distinguished alumnus of what he calls "the same academy that rejected Adolf Hitler twice—which is, of course, the biggest mistake that any university has ever made in history." ...

"Provokateur", "Schockkünstler": Sein "altes" Image hat Gottfried Helnwein in Österreich nicht richtig ablegen können, seit er das Land vor 20 Jahren verlassen hat. Nun widmet das Linzer Kunstmuseum Lentos dem Kunststar, der in Los Angeles und Irland lebt, eine umfassende Werkschau - und bietet damit die Gelegenheit, einen neuen Blick auf Helnwein zu werfen. ...

ORF, Treffpunkt Kultur, 3. November, um 22.30 Uhr, Barbara Rett prasentiert:
Gottfried Helnwein: Der Maler und sein Holocaust-Mahnmal für L.A.
Ein Film von Claudia Teissig.
Schock-Therapeut: Gottfried Helnwein
50 Jahre nach der Reichspogrom-Nacht - im November 1988 - ließ Österreichs Schockmaler Gottfried Helnwein vor dem Kölner Dom auf eigene Kosten eine Galerie des Schreckens errichten. Hundert Meter lang, jedes der Bilder vier Meter hoch: Fotos von Vier- bis Achtjährigen - der Tod in ihre bleichen Gesichter geschrieben. Kaum war die Bilderstraße errichtet, kam es zu den ersten Beschädigungen. Nun stellt Helnwein seine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Holocaust in seiner Wahlheimat Los Angeles aus. Dort fühlt Helnwein sich am "äußersten Punkt im Prozess des Untergangs des Abendlandes" angekommen - und sieht die Stadt als Herausforderung. Für 2004 bereitet er eine große Retrospektive in Pekings "verbotener Stadt" vor. TREFFPUNKT KULTUR hat den Maler in L.A. besucht. ...

Produced by German and Austrian National Television ORFand ZDF
First performance: 34.Filmfestival of Berlin, 1984
The script is based on an idea of Gottfried Helnwein,
Directed by Peter Hajek. ...

Video: Script and Director: Gottfried Helnwein ...