Sunday, May 16, 2010

Cannes film festival review – Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/16/over-your-cities-grass-will-grow
Sophie Fiennes has directed an intriguing, near-wordless documentary about the work of industrial artist Anselm Kiefer

Building almost from the ground up in a derelict silk factory, Kiefer devised an artistic project extending over acres: miles of corridors, huge studio spaces with ambitious landscape paintings and sculptures that correspond to monumental constructions in the surrounding woodland, and serpentine excavated labyrinths with great earthy columns that resemble stalagmites or termite mounds. Nowhere is it clear where the finished product definitively stands; perhaps it is all work in progress, a monumental concept-art organism.

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