OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW

Directed by Sophie Fiennes
UK/France/Netherlands
107 minutes
Documentary
Print courtesy of Kino Lorber
SAT OCT 15 @ 4:45PM
High Street
MON OCT 17 @ 6:30PM
The Grand

A mesmerizing portrait of the artist Anselm Kiefer by acclaimed docu mentarian Sophie Fiennes, Grass is part tribute, part deconstruction. In 1993 Kiefer left his native Germany and settled in Barjac in France, where he bought a derelict silk factory, transforming it into an extraordinary artistic center, at once the place where his paintings and sculptures are housed and displayed, but as such, a colossal, evolving architectural artwork in and of itself. Fiennes begins by roaming through the tunnels and corridors of his studio-network: huge, disorienting shapes and forms loom, composed of earth and mud. There are giant organic pillars, a visual or conceptual rhyme to the towers built outside. Color, light, texture and form are all brilliantly illuminated in Kiefer’s masterful work. His artistry looks as if it could be taking place centuries ago and yet it feels very modern. This wondrous film is a gorgeous and contemplative meditation onartistic practice and expression.

Filmography: Hoover Street Revival (02), The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema (06)