The Endless Moment: The Painter Rolf Kuhlmann
German realist painter Rolf Kuhlmann is known for his complex, multilayered figures in compositions which evoke the world of dreams.In this remarkable documentary, director Claudia Schmid spends a year following the artist as he visits German forests, and ancient archeological sites and refugee camps in Greece.
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German realist painter Rolf Kuhlmann is known for his complex, multilayered figures in compositions which evoke the world of dreams. In this remarkable documentary, director Claudia Schmid spends a year following the artist as he visits German forests, and ancient archeological sites and refugee camps in Greece. The Endless Moment documents the extraordinary creation of ambitious, large-scale double triptych paintings—from life studies to tactile three-dimensional objects—as the camera captures moments of conception, rumination, execution, and revision.
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- Oct 3, 2021
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- 2h 15m
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- Germany, Greece
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