Films on Art
This is the official video platform of the IKS – Institute for Art Documentation – and of the award-winning filmmaker and photography curator Ralph Goertz.
All the documentary films you’ll find here are dedicated to contemporary art, with a particular focus on photography – from the famous representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography and the Folkwang School in Essen to New Colour Photography from the 1970s.
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JOACHIM BROHM. Transformations
1 video
Joachim Brohm. Transformations
Photographic projects since 1979Joachim Brohm is regarded as a pioneer of documentary-artistic colour photography in Germany. Even whilst studying from 1977 at the Folkwang School in Essen under Otto Steinert and Michael Schmid, he consistently chose to work in co...
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LAURENZ BERGES. Living Spaces
1 video
Laurenz Berges (born 1966 in Cloppenburg) belongs to the younger generation who studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Prior to this, however, Berges studied at the Folkwang School in Essen and, in 1989, spent time as an assistant to Evelyn Hofer in New York City, an ...
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ANDREAS GURSKY - a film by Ralph Goertz
1 video
Andreas Gursky is one of the most important international artists working with the medium of photography.
The filmmaker Ralph Goertz accompanied Andreas Gursky for eight years with his camera in his studio, taking photographs, in his class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, setting up his exhibit...