Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2005 Sommario / Contents

Hausmann), composizioni e registrazioni per la televisione e su DVD,
e non solo a Monaco.
Che il cinema non sia fatto solo di immagini ma anche di
interpretazione è una caratteristica che Aljoscha Zimmermann
esprime bene con la sua musica. Che sua figlia Irina in Goldstein, anche
lei pianista, abbia scelto di fare un film, non è un puro caso.Altrettanto
logico che lo abbia fatto su suo padre. Il ritratto di un artista, il suo
autoritratto, un ritratto di famiglia, un autoritratto di famiglia, chi viene
ritratto e chi ritrae – autoriflessione del cinema. – ENNO PATALAS
When Silence Sings is an exceptional film about an exceptional artist.
Not just “about”, but “with” and also “by”. A documentary, but open to
acting and invention, inspired by its subject, always involved in fiction and
experiment.
Aljoscha Zimmermann, born in Riga in 1944, pianist and composer, arrived
in Germany with his wife and daughters in 1973, living first in Berlin, then
in Munich, where I was able to win him to the Filmmuseum as resident
pianist and composer. His music – sometimes faithful interpretation of
traditional scores, more often variations on them, mostly free compositions,
always music deriving from the spirit of the films – was a fundamental part
of our silent film acquisition and reconstruction. He has long since
continued his work for cinema, with scores for many films besides the
“Munich versions”, and also in composition and performance with small
ensembles (the smallest, Father Aljoscha with daughter Sabrina, now
Hausmann), and compositions and recordings for television and DVD.
With his music Aljoscha Zimmermann articulates cinema not only as a
pictorial but also as a performing art. That his daughter Irina (now
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Goldstein), herself a highly trained pianist, turned to film is not just happy
accident.And it is likewise consistent that she has made him the subject of
a film. It is not only the portrait of a performer, his self-portrait, but also a
family portrait, family-self-portrait, and over the portrayed-portrayer, a selfreflection
of the cinema. – ENNO PATALAS