by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Germany 2009, 52'
| WRITTEN AND DIRECT BY: Heinz Peter Schwerfel | PRODUCER: Anne Schuchman | |
| PHOTOGRAPHY: Marcel Neumann | PRODUCTION: ARTCORE, SCHUCH Conseils, Productions Anne Schuchman, ARTE France Unité de programmes Culture et Spectacles, Gabrielle Babin Guggenheim | |
| CAMERA ASSISTANT, SOUND: Heinrich Harndt |
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| SOUND DESIGN: Gérard Chiron, Ulrich Lask | DISTRIBUTION: ARTE France | |
| EDITING: Philippe La Bruyère |
Presented at The Screen of the Arts 2010Christian Boltanski (Paris, 1944), who has been invited to represent France at the next Venice Biennial in 2011, has managed to turn his own life into a work of art by granting a Tasmanian millionaire the rights to record and observe every moment of his days, from a secret location, for eight years, beginning in January 2010. Produced in Paris, Berlin and Japan, the film is a portrait of the famous prize-winning artist, creator of the installation Personnes, hosted by the Grand Palais in Paris as part of the series Monumenta 2010 and subsequently re-adapted for the spaces of the New York Armory and the Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Through visits to his works and private archives, including previously unreleased material and excerpts from the film A la Recherche de Christian B. by Alain Fleischer and The Finiteness of Freedom, also by Schwerfel, Boltanski talks about his work and introduces his ambitious project Les Archives du Coeur, a collection of recordings of heartbeats, begun in 2008 and housed on the Japanese island of Teshima.
Heinz Peter Schwerfel
A writer, journalist and director, he was born in Cologne in 1954. He founded the KunstFilm Biennial, an international festival on art and cinema. He lives in Paris and Cologne.
Selected Filmography
1995 Kounellis: Fragments of a Diary; 1997 Make Me Think: Bruce Nauman; 1998 Jochen Gerz: Your Art; 2002 Alex Katz: What About Style; 2004 Georg Baselitz; 2005 Henri Matisse: Figure Colour Space; 2009 Julian Rosefeldt: American Night; Les Vies Possibles de Christian Boltanski; 2010 Annette Messager: Pudique et publique.
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