Look subjective labor director and American artist, a man who creates, just all the time.
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Bob Wilson never said he must do something creative. “My work is alive,” he says in the portrait that he devotes Arte. This is not a posture. The director and American plastic can not. It creates, just all the time. It is observed at work in the Carl von Karstedt movie.
The German director was a child when he saw The Black Rider in Hamburg in 1990. He was captivated, followed his work and decided to make a film that promises to be his “quest to track down the beauty “. Suffice to say the impossible almost. But no matter: it is the path that matters, and that it borrows has charm. He draws a portrait that is obviously an exercise in admiration, but he’s alive, unpretentious, illuminating for who knows little the life and work of Bob Wilson, kind to his longtime fans.
Carl von Karstedt takes the stage in his quest. It tastes meetings, interlaces interviews. We see Bob Wilson on stage repeat Dorian, a show for one actor Christian Friedel, the first of which is scheduled for June, at the Schauspielhaus in Dusseldorf.
Wonders of freedom
Wilson turned 80 in October 2021. He said: “My existence, and all I could do in my work is the result of chance.” One of the most important was the meeting with Christopher Knowles , an autistic teenager, the director has taken under his wing. It was he who wrote the texts of Einstein on the Beach (1976), the opera that brought a revolution in the art scene of the twentieth century.
The footage we heard the “one, one, one, two” haunting music of Philip Glass that open. They show Bob Wilson, coming by surprise at the end of five hours of performance, and dancing on the board. Wonder of freedom of a man that we see in another sequence, removing his jacket and playing with the round, which comes alive, such a creature.
“When I met Bob looked like a science student in the 1950s, recalls Tom Waits, who signed the music of The Black Rider. I did not know what to think.” It was enough to work with to measure that “transform anyone”.
A sentiment shared by Marina Abramovic, Bob Wilson staged a performance presented at the Paris Opera in the fall, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. The Serbian artist tells how this collaboration allowed him to expel the memories of his relationship with his mother. Willem Dafoe, who accompanied him on the set, gaily evokes his long relationship with the director, and stressed that “no one knows as enlighten him.”
To clarify the set, of course – in the matter, Bob Wilson is a master. But also enlighten the viewer, offer a change of perspective. How? ‘Or’ What ? This is the mystery of beauty that raises the film