While in Miami last week I was able to attend the US premier of the new documentary “Gerhard Richter Painting” by Corinna Belz. Ms. Belz has put together a taught and quiet movie that among many things captures the essence of working in the studio. It is this quality – a personal view about Richter and a universal vision of what the works is – that make this film so interesting to me.
The film starts in the studio without holding your hand and spending time telling back stories about who and what – instead it goes right to work. Eventually the story starts to allow the outside world in – but only when it is relevant to the matter at hand. I was constantly aware of how much, or should I say how little Ms. Belz allowed the outside world to inject itself into the film – and found myself enjoying it all the more.
Gerhard Richter Painting opens sometime this spring.