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SEAN SCULLY – THE OPPOSITE WAY
by Hans Andreas Guttner ARTS | PORTRAIT
The film presents one of the most important abstract painters of our times. Throughout the film Sean
Scully is shown painting a new picture, THE GREY WOLF. The process of painting is being interrupted
by Scully’s biographical tales and reflections: about the disaster that was his childhood and his criminal
past as a member of an Irish streetgang in London. And about his indomitable will to become an
artist and his troublesome way to success. We are present at the opening of the big retrospective in
Barcelona. Another highlight of the film is Scully teaching his students at the Kunstakademie in
Munich. With rare openness Scully tells about his traumata and backlashes as well as about the exciting
creative process and the closeness of failure.
German title: SEAN SCULLY – GEGEN DEN STROM
45min, 52min or 90min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | English original version or German version available
SEARCHING FOR THE DANCING GOD
Kerala's last Shaman
by Sylvie Bantle DANCE | RELIGION | ETHNOLOGY
Folkart of castless people in South-India? Trance-dance, Shamans and dancing Gods! Western countries
rarely get to know something about this cultural treasure.This exiting visual journey meets a
vanishing culture of South-Indian outcasts in a village of Kerala. Some times back their trance-dance
was still practiced by the Shamans, who conveyed their knollege verbally to the next generation. Sylvie
Bantle, writer and filmmaker from Germany, recorded this exceptional encounter within a period more
than 4 years, report and reflection of a traveller from the modern West about the very moment of the
end of an old world, of an ancestor's culture as many once in Kerala and the simultaneous change to
the modern live in India.
“Only because you have come here, the people look at me again.” Guru Kutty Ashan
103min | DV | DVD original version with German or English voice over available
Amid buttons, spools of thread and theater costumes, inside a
virtual castle tower Graziella and Rita reign, as if timeless
Sleeping Beauties and Cinderellas.
A curious young woman's voice prods the two throughout the
film, exhorting them to talk about their past, recall their loves
of long ago, and slowly rediscover their dreams.
German title: WER SUCHET, FINDET
31min | Italian with german or english subtitles available
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german documentaries 2008
Production:
Sisyphos Film
Wagmuellerstr. 21
80538 Munich, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 89 - 22 95 05
fax: +49(0) 89 - 50 14 64
guttner@t-online.de
www.guttner.de
Contact:
Sylvie Bantle
Wendl-Dietrich-Str.14
80634 Munich, Germany
sylviander@gmx.de
SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND
by Enrica Gatto WOMEN | ESSAY
World Sales:
ZeLIG - School of documentary
television and new media
Via Brennero20/d
39100 Bolzano, Italy
tel.:+39 / 0471977930
fax: +39 / 0471977931
info@zeligfilm.it
www.zeligfilm.it
Contact:
enricagatto@libero.it