A dialogue with so that people can be a part of it somebody lives from the masses from everyone taking part singing and clapping together. But now everyones at home in a quarantine that makes the barriers within Brazilian Society even greater the countrys culture lives on and from the streets and it unites people. Differences are great and the little bar down the street or the beach or to places where the lines between social classes almost completely dissolve the coroner has led to everyone keeping to themselves and a part of the mixture thats part of rio has gone missing. To their work the extreme economic inequality is why the quarantine hasnt really been effective in rio while rios numerous cultural sites remain empty concert halls bars cinemas and theatres are still closed the narrow streets of the citys old quarter are filling up again with people who have to work because the governments emergency carona funds arent enough. And that also goes for people like holly and the heat their circus acrobats and since the coronavirus theyve made intersections theyre picked up a red traffic light rather than the opening of a curtain marks the start of their act while traffic is stopped they show off a bit of what they can do and hope for some spare change before the audience drives off again. But when i see the cars i imagine that there are a whole bunch of seats and i perform my show i smile at the audience even if i cant see their faces although im just at a traffic light i imagine its a circus ring. I know. When all goes well a day of smiling and acrobatics earns them the equivalent of 10 europes but their street performances also the training they need to stay in shape for once again performing at a circus one day when the pandemic is over. Them but this is probably germanys most famous film director paris texas where nervous to social club wings of desire just 3 of the 60 movies and documentaries hes made so far now to celebrate his 75th birthday theres a new documentary to be made about him which looks back at his illustrious career in the style of the vendors movie. Portrayed him vendors in the style of them then those movie the producers of a new documentary sent the legendary german director on the road to the locations of some of his best known films each shot could be event us out take. A view. We started on this journey without knowing exactly what would happen when we actually shot in the way venders makes his movies. Every vendors film is an adventure he starts shooting with actors and. Camera not knowing where the story will end then does is fascinated by the idea of america the wild west the wide open spaces and the endless search for the american dream. What he does beautifully is put together damages with sound and light and music that are that once you see them they stay with you forever. In the late 1990 s. Vendors reinvented himself as a documentary filmmaker it was a perfect fit to his improvisational style when a Vista Social Club sparked a worldwide renaissance in cuban music. His tribute to dance choreographer pina bausch was groundbreaking shot in 3 d. The film gave the audience the direct experience of live performance. Salt of the earth a portrait of photographer sebastiaan salgado was just as powerful vendors received Oscar Nominations for all 3 documentaries. Other passion is photography the director is a digital film pioneer but his photos are analog only his pictures are exhibited around the world. Last year vendors turned his lifes work into a monumental installation at the go home polly and paris. In wings of desire vendors masterpiece a sad angel gazes down on a divided berlin. His movies are like painting. But why are they modern classics i think because they are portrayed. Painting with cellulite and light. Then vendors has made indelible images for the screen and inspired a new generation of filmmakers. And are joined now by our film guru mr scott rocks. And youve interviewed vendors a number of times actually he wanted to be a painter begin to be screwed yes thats true that was his sort of plan a but i think i mean if you look at his movies i mean he basically paints with with his camera i mean and its interesting because his biggest inspiration as a painter was hopper and if you look at vendors film some of the scenes look like they were taken directly from whatever hopper painting and also like copper he was really inspired by sort of american iconic graffiti you know the big wide open spaces that the empty highway the neon lights in the cities but because vendors wasnt america it is an american he looked at these images from a distance sort of saw a bit of alienated away and and saw them and made them look seem strange and different and i think thats probably how twice inspired so many also american directors to take a look at these images that they think they know so well and see them with a sort of new foreign eyes with the eyes of the inventor. Inspired many as you said but he was also a bit of a technical pioneer wasnt it yeah thats quite interesting because most artists writers are a lot of artist directors are sort of obsessive. Lloyd fans of dont like to mess around with Digital Tools vendors is the exact opposite he was one of the 1st directors to really embrace Digital Technology to start shooting on handheld digital cameras i mean his is a documentary film that won a Vista Social Club was the 1st full length film to be shot and edited entirely digitally and hes always kept pace with the new day Digital Technology i mean when 3 d. Technology came in he was always one of the 1st directors to embrace it with his advance documentary pina and as i say a lot of artist directors are a bit scared. Or a bit shy of new Technology Vendors has always said these are just new tools that we can use to tell our stories better or new and different ways you see most of his 60. Do you have a personal favorite i had to pick out i think probably wings of desire which of course is this classic berlin set movie i think because that was probably the 1st film i ever saw where it wasnt a film about plot and story it was about ideas and emotion i never really seen that before sir changed the idea my idea of what film could do. But you know hes made so many amazing movies i think thats probably his his all time classic ok and i should just mention that our producer tanya whos american says that she came to germany because of seeing wings of desire so what an influence scott was as always thanks very much. France violet has been a key figure of the. Fiftys and is still collecting accolades to this day in 2017 he won the golden lion at the Venice Biennale his art is often live where bodies become part of a sculpture or installation his latest exhibition is in new nick where we filmed before the coronavirus pandemic or gap. Since erhard vitae activates his artwork titled yellow sculpture for him art isnt something hanging on the wall or standing in a corner art is what happens when humans act what they do experience and sets that art. Here visitors to a retrospective of his work in munich activate this piece it requires 2 people to be at just the right distance from each other in order to see each other. In the late 1960 s. The german press dismissed biters art as childish his concept of turning time space and even human bodies into sculpture was to open and free from them. Vital left home at 16 rather than taking over the familys baked goods factory at 19 he created his 1st sculptural work titled attempt at being a sculpture. While studying at the decided after academy of art he experimented with pillows which his painter classmates used for pillow fights the future of global art stars gear how to easter and sigma poker. Was. A 967 vita moved to new york with his wife and 2 Young Children it was a risk but it paid off 2 years later he had an exhibition at the museum of modern art. In this artwork the sculpture becomes a plinth and people sculpture as they move towards each other step by step it asks how close. Do you want to be and who do i want to be but as art is deeply human always about the individual and the rest of society about inside and outside borders and community he says i have to have a deep love for people and trust. In knowing i was born in 1939 and at a very young age i was aware very early on that i experience peoples content sometimes murderously ive seen things id rather not talk about right now clothes and i think that really had a Strong Influence on me in the way my work involves people and in the way i dont have shapes constructed for permanence because ive seen how everything can be destroyed in one fell swoop because the cause of this with. This art represents the greatest possible freedom reconsidering things deciding freely and then acting like it says i always wanted my art to have relevance not just in the present moment but beyond and he said just that. Exhibition in the house could stimulate has now been extended until november more arts and culture stories on our Facebook Page and on twitter culture but thats all for this edition thanks very much for watching to join us tomorrow if you can at the same time. To the point of strong opinions clear positions of International Perspective such. A conflict between the u. S. And germany over the north streets or gas pipeline linking germany with russia looks set to boil over the americans say its pandering to putin and threatening trusted guy action find out more to the point. To the point. That even the minutes on d. W. Like. Oh. My god says i was food for the russians so. It runs deep. So many different walks of life. 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