German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, whose movie “Downfall” was nominated for an Oscar, shot his latest film “The Painter” in only four days. The docu-fiction, which screens Saturday at IDFA, is a collaboration with German artist Albert Oehlen, who is played by Teutonic thesp Ben Becker (“Comedian Harmonists). Now Hirschbiegel and Oehlen are working together on a film about Vincent van Gogh, he tells Variety.
“The Painter,” whose sales rights are being handled by Picture Tree International, follows the artist (Becker) completing a painting for much of its 94-minute run time. Becker creates on camera what Oehlen is doing behind it to show the process of the artist at work.
“It’s a genre-bending film and a first,” says Hirschbiegel, who boarded the project after Oehlen asked him for advice about equipment. “You are watching a painting starting from scratch and being completed. This hasn’t really been done before in film history.
“The Painter,” whose sales rights are being handled by Picture Tree International, follows the artist (Becker) completing a painting for much of its 94-minute run time. Becker creates on camera what Oehlen is doing behind it to show the process of the artist at work.
“It’s a genre-bending film and a first,” says Hirschbiegel, who boarded the project after Oehlen asked him for advice about equipment. “You are watching a painting starting from scratch and being completed. This hasn’t really been done before in film history.
- 11/19/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based Picture Tree International has acquired worldwide rights to docu-fiction “The Painter,” a collaboration between German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for Oscar-nominated “Downfall,” and German artist Albert Oehlen.
The work stars Ben Becker, whose credits include “Brother of Sleep” and “Comedian Harmonists,” and features the voice of Charlotte Rampling. The film is completing postproduction with Pti presenting a first trailer during the Toronto Film Festival’s hybrid market.
The film depicts Oehlen struggling with a painting and pondering the meaning of his creation. Becker impersonates the painter and re-creates a painting that Oehlen himself is creating step by step behind the camera, with the actor improvising the process in front of the camera.
According to a statement, the film “follows the artist as he is struggling and suffering along this process, with us watching in joyful despair, wondering what might happen next, until the white canvas has turned into a finished painting.
The work stars Ben Becker, whose credits include “Brother of Sleep” and “Comedian Harmonists,” and features the voice of Charlotte Rampling. The film is completing postproduction with Pti presenting a first trailer during the Toronto Film Festival’s hybrid market.
The film depicts Oehlen struggling with a painting and pondering the meaning of his creation. Becker impersonates the painter and re-creates a painting that Oehlen himself is creating step by step behind the camera, with the actor improvising the process in front of the camera.
According to a statement, the film “follows the artist as he is struggling and suffering along this process, with us watching in joyful despair, wondering what might happen next, until the white canvas has turned into a finished painting.
- 9/15/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The film has now been sold to France (Family Films), Latin America (Encripta), Cis/Baltics (Red Castle Group) and Taiwan (Av Jet).
Dutch crime drama The Judgement has racked up its first international deals for Picture Tree International (Pti).
The film has now been sold to France (Family Films), Latin America (Encripta), Cis/Baltics (Red Castle Group) and Taiwan (Av Jet), with a wide local release via September Films on 70 screens set for this week (September 2).
The film is based on the true story of the notorious Dutch ‘Deventer murder case’, when a widow was killed in her home in...
Dutch crime drama The Judgement has racked up its first international deals for Picture Tree International (Pti).
The film has now been sold to France (Family Films), Latin America (Encripta), Cis/Baltics (Red Castle Group) and Taiwan (Av Jet), with a wide local release via September Films on 70 screens set for this week (September 2).
The film is based on the true story of the notorious Dutch ‘Deventer murder case’, when a widow was killed in her home in...
- 9/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Oehlen is one of the world’s top-selling artists globally.
Picture Tree International has boarded international sales for Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Painter, with the Downfall director collaborating with visual artist Albert Oehlen on the ’docufiction’ project.
Ben Becker stars and Charlotte Rampling lends her voice to the film. Becker will play Oehlen, improvising and re-creating a painting that Oehlen himself will paint in the background.
The film is currently in post and Picture Tree will present a first trailer during the hybrid market in Toronto.
Hirschbiegel and Oehlen are long-time friends and collaborators who both studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Hamburg.
Picture Tree International has boarded international sales for Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Painter, with the Downfall director collaborating with visual artist Albert Oehlen on the ’docufiction’ project.
Ben Becker stars and Charlotte Rampling lends her voice to the film. Becker will play Oehlen, improvising and re-creating a painting that Oehlen himself will paint in the background.
The film is currently in post and Picture Tree will present a first trailer during the hybrid market in Toronto.
Hirschbiegel and Oehlen are long-time friends and collaborators who both studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Hamburg.
- 8/31/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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