I. IMMENDORFF

ICH. IMMENDORFF

Directed by Nicola Graef

MONDAY JANUARY 19 11:30AM CASTRO

Jörg Immendorff, who ranks among the most important of contemporary German artists, died in 2007 after a 9-year-long struggle with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. This documentary records his final two years as he continues, despite being lamed by the disease, to create large-scale masterpieces through assistants. During this time he also remains professor at Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he had been a student of Joseph Beuys decades earlier. Interviews with the people who knew him best provide background and historical context to his artistic expression that spans personal and political topics through performance, paintings, and sculpture. Filmmaker Graef aims to both convey the man and the legend for which life and art were inseparable.
--Petra Wehle

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US Premiere

Country
Germany
Year
2008
Run Time
digital, 99min., German
with English subtitles
Cast
Joerg Immendorff
Irene Immendorff
Oda Jaune
Camera
Alexander Rott
Screenwriter
Nicola Graef
Printsource
Lona media
Email
kontakt@lonamedia.de

Awards
Norddeutscher Filmpreis 2008:
In Competition
Szolnok International Film Festival of Fine Arts 2008, Hungary: Grand Prize

Director

Nicola Graef
studied German philology, theatre studies, and philosophy in Munich and London where she worked as a freelance author and journalist for the London studios of ZDF and NDR. Graef then completed a traineeship at NDR in Hamburg and worked as an editor for several NDR TV shows. ICH. IMMENDORFF is her first documentary film for the big screen