Sonntag, 17. September 2017

About life as a visual artist who didnt draw the last years

About life as a visual artist. What happened? Where does the change of meaning come from? For seven years I have painted almost nothing. After two weeks of desperate search for a suitable education, I have then seen it: I am an artist, even if I am not painting. Everyone has his life. Everyone has a destiny. Some have chosen the wrong profession. And that does not happen to me. I am neither a computer scientist, a building cleaner, nor a gardener, nor a cook, etc. I can draw. And if I want a more luxurious life and do not want to live from 70 euros a week, I can draw professionally again and try to sell good pictures. My goal is an exhibition opposite the Busbahnofs pub. The Marie. I know I've painted some excellent pictures so far. Of all these pictures I have only one. I have to produce again. Just as everyone goes to work, who has one. And by no means is it just fun. It is often a struggle. You can do anything with the white paper. Great creativity is required. And in oil painting the fine work is very important. This craft can be learned, then you can draw like Bob Ross. Or you put it into the cradle, then you can become a Picasso, possibly. Maybe, oh, maybe this is the right way. I hope so much. I will give my best and practice a lot in signing. Each artist has started with the signing the pictures from other artists. 

Freitag, 15. September 2017

Taxi (2015)

 german title: Taxi Teheran
director: Jafar Panahi
script: Jafar Panahi
land of production: Iran
setting: Teheran
genre: Docu-Fiction
year of release: 2015
starring:  Jafar Panahi etc.
rating:  * of 5 points

Jafar Panahi drives a taxi and makes the discussions in the car look like reality tv.

Since Panahi is forbidden to shoot films, he films secretly with his I-Phone and a small camera equipment. The presented film is not convincing and it is not understandable why he won the golden bear of the Berlin Filmfestspiele, since he is caught up in trivialities and hardly goes deeper. One wonders what this film really is, robbed of all film aesthetics and so much from everyday life, that you think, you could make a similar movie with a camera in a taxi.

 Not worth seeing. Boring.

Jafar Panahi fährt Taxi und lässt die im Auto entstehenden Diskussionen wie Reality-TV aussehen. 

Da es Panahi verboten ist, Filme zu drehen, filmt er heimlich mit seinem I-Phone und einer kleinen Kameraausrüstung. Der dargebotene Film ist nicht überzeugend und es ist nicht verständlich, wieso er den goldenen Bären der Berliner Filmfestspiele gewonnen hat, da er sich in Belanglosigkeiten verfängt und kaum tiefer geht. Man fragt sich, was diese Chose eigentlich soll, jeglicher Filmästhetik beraubt und so sehr aus dem Alltag, dass man denkt, man könnte doch selbst Taxifahrten aufnehmen. Irgendwas interessantes wird doch dabei rumkommen. Nicht sehenswert. Langweilig.  


Bullyparade - Der Film

director: Michael Herbig
script: Michael Herbig etc.
based on the  sitcom Bullyparade
land of production: Germany
setting: diverse
genre: Comedy
year of release: 2017
starring:  Michael Herbig
                 Rick Kavanian
                 Christian Tramitz
PG: PG / FSK 6
rating:  *  of 5 points

The five-part episodic film with always the same actors is about the brothers Jens and Jörg, who want to prevent the fall of the wall, by Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, whose friendship is put to the test, by Sissi and Franz in a haunted house, by Lutz and Löffler , who meet a financial agent as they need 60 euros and from the crew of the dream ship Surprise.

Unrelated episodic film, which is hardly really funny. Some stars have short appearances, but this still does not save this movie. There are hardly any new tendencies. Most of this is a warmed broth of 20 years of Bullyparade. 


Der fünfteilige Episodenfilm mit immer den gleichen Schauspielern handelt von den Brüdern Jens und Jörg, die den Fall der Mauer verhindern wollen, von Winnetou und Old Shatterhand, deren Freundschaft auf die Probe gestellt wird, von Sissi und Franz in einem Spukhaus, von Lutz und Löffler, die einen Finanzmakler treffen, da sie 60 Euro brauchen und von der Crew des Traumschiff Surprise. 

 Unzusammenhängender Episodenfilm, der kaum wirklich lustig ist. Einige Stars haben kurze Auftritte, aber das rettet diesen Film immer noch nicht.  Es gibt kaum neue Zoten. Das meiste ist aufgewärmte Brühe von 20 Jahren Bullyparade.