For the first time at Photomonth, we will be presenting films in collaboration with the PLANETE+ DOC festival. This year, there will be two film screenings: Bert Stern. Original Madman and Manufactured Landscapes, but this is not where our work together ends. In autumn, a box set of films entitled Faces of Photography will arrive in stores. All screenings will take place at Pauza cinema. 

 

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6.06, 18:00, Pauza Cinema, ul. Floriańska 18/5

 

USA, 2011, 93 min, directed by: Shannah Laumeister, cinematography by: Shannah Laumeister. production: Gregory McClatchy, Shannah Laumeister

Sophia Loren, Liz Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Marilyn Monroe: the famous American photographer Bert Stern has snapped them all. In his own words, “Making love and making photographs were closely connected in my mind when it came to women.” Stern is particularly famous for his portrait series of Marilyn Monroe and his “Lolita with heart-shaped glasses” for the poster of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita.What begins as a conventional portrait of a celebrity photographer gradually turns into a playful mirror gag between the 82-year-old and his muse Shannah Laumeister, 40 years his junior, who also directed the film. Organised into chapters and packed with photos, interviews and scenes from Stern’s daily pursuits, Becoming Bert Stern reveals a man who venerated women and raised them to iconic proportions, but could hardly relate to them in everyday life. Underscored by warm, fresh sounding music, Laumeister has made a loving, intimate and vulnerable portrait of a man who appeared to have it all, but who also ended up losing it all.

 

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7.06, 18:00, Pauza Cinema, ul. Floriańska 18/5

 

Canada, 2006, 90 min, directed by: Jennifer Baichwal, cinematography by: Peter Mettler, producers: Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, Jennifer Baichwal, production: National Film Board of Canada

 

Huge buildings, factories and mines are a symbol of China’s economic might and the engineering craftsmanship of Chinese constructors, the fulfilment of the Chinese authorities’ eternal dream of mastering nature and a sign of the country’s economic development. Manufactured Landscapes is a documentary feature film about the work of Edward Burtynsky, one of Canada’s most renowned photographers. His remarkable photographs depicting industrial landscapes can be seen in the collections of 15 of the world’s largest museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, the National Library in Paris, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum. Burtynsky takes large-scale photos of “manufactured landscapes” – quarries, rubbish tips, factories, dams and mines.

He photographs both the achievements and the ruins of civilisation, doing so in a way described by many as “stunning” or “beautiful”. A film crew accompanied him as he took pictures documenting the effects of the great industrial revolution taking place in China. Burtynsky aims his camera at such places as the Three Gorges Dam, factory floors stretching to a length of one kilometre, and Shanghai’s breathtaking urban renewal. Manufactured Landscapes, shot in Super-16mm film, avoids simple and overt conclusions, instead being a kind of meditation on human influence on the planet. “One day I realised that around me there was nothing natural left,” comments the film’s protagonist, Edward Burtynsky. “The changes that nature has undergone under the influence of nature – that’s what I deal with today”.

 

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In 2006, for the first time at Krakow Photomonth, the Nuremberg House presented a series of documentary films, portraits of eminent art photographers. These were created by Reiner Holzemer, a German documentary maker who has devoted many of his films to this area of art. Since then, we present every new Holzemer film in this cycle, and he himself has been our guest on many occasions. In addition, every year we present a film devoted to further masters of photography.

 

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8.06, 19:00, Nuremberg House Gallery, ul. Skałeczna 2

 

Germany, 2007, 43 min, written and directed by: Werner Raeune

 

Peter Lindbergh was born in 1944 in Leszno and grew up in Duisburg. He studied in the painting department, but in 1971 abandoned his studies to become the assistant of photographer Hans Lux in Düsseldorf. After moving to Paris in 1978, he began working with magazines: Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. Lindbergh came to prominence internationally n the 1980s thanks to his black-and-white portraits of Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Stephanie Seymour inspired by German expressionism. He also has many famous advertising campaigns and documentary films to his name. 

Since 1990, Werner Raeune has been observing Peter Lindbergh on film as he works, asking him about how he started, what interests him in women and how his perception of female beauty has changed over the years. 

 

Germany, 35 min, directed by: Ralph Goertz

 

John Rankin Waddell, who goes by the pseudonym Rankin, an eminent British photographer born in 1966 in Paisley, near Glasgow. He initially attended Brighton Polytechnic, but at 21 abandoned his degree for photography and studies at London College of Communication. In 1991, he and his friend Jefferson Hack founded the magazine Dazed and Confused, which became one of the leading fashion and lifestyle publications. It was also a trampoline for many famous designers, and allowed a whole new generation of photographers to forge a career. His style is characterised by dynamic, intimate, witty and original portraits made with a remarkable intuition, also reflecting the character of he people captured in the photos (politicians, actors and models). 

Rankin also works with film. He makes fiction and advertising films as well as music videos. He also keenly publishes magazines and books. His last exhibition, Show off at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, was the inspiration behind the film Show Off. The director, Ralph Goertz, accompanied Rankin during a session in London, and heard what really interests him in art. 

 

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9.06, 19:00, Nuremberg House Gallery, ul. Skałeczna 2

 

Germany, 30 min, directed by: Ralph Goertz

 

Albert Watson was born in 1942 in Edinburgh. He studied graphic design in Dundee before beginning film studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He has photographed many famous personalities of film, art, the music scene and the world of fashion, including Sade, Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. In the early 1990s he achieved renown as a fashion photographer, his work including advertising campaigns for companies including Prada and Chanel. He was therefore able to concentrate on his own projects corresponding to his interests. During numerous trips to destinations from Marrakech to Las Vegas, he has photographed both the everyday lives of the inhabitants of big cities and common people’s efforts to get by in poor or developing countries. 

 

Germany, 2011, 40 min, directed by: Ralph Goertz

 

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in New York, and began to take his first photographs in the 1970s with a Polaroid, mostly of his friends and acquaintances. One of these was the future star of the American music scene Patti Smith. In 1973, Mapplethorpe held his first individual exhibition, at the Light Gallery in New York. He usually worked in a studio, making carefully composed portraits and nudes that resembled classical sculptures. His models included Andy Warhol, Richard Gere, Peter Gabriel and Grace Jones. The early 1990s brought the series Portfolio X, presented at an exhibition called The Perfect Moment and causing public debate. The controversial male nudes led to protests from conservatives opposed to this kind of project being funded by public money. The artist also photographed still lifes, particularly flowers. Before his death (from AIDS in 1989) he established a foundation in his name which deals with his artistic legacy and raises money for scientific research supporting the fight against HIV and AIDS. 

 

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