Wim Wenders who played a significant role among the European
filmmakers to destroy the very semantics of 1970’s German cinema has created
around 50 films both short and long within the four decades of his celluloid
life. Many honours came in search of Wenders comprising Oscar award, Palme
d’or, Golden Lion etc. The predominant themes of his movies include the
amalgamation of cultures, human instinct for travel, and migration across
boundaries and so on. The movie ‘Paris , Texas’ bagging Palme d’Or of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, ‘Wings of
Desire’ with the Best Direction award of 1987 Bavarian Film Award and the Oscar winning ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ for the best documentary are some of his
notable contributions.
‘A Trick of Light’, ‘ Notebook on Cities and Clothes’,
‘Pina’, ‘ Room 666’, ‘Tokyo-Ga’ are the films of Wim Wenders to be screened in
this section. ‘Pina’, the 3D documentary film presents extracts from some of
the most noted dance pieces by the German dance choreographer Pina Bausch .As
the images perceived and translated through the 3D vision remains apart from
usual eyesight, ‘Pina’ bears a stamp of its own. ‘Tokyo-Ga’ ostensibly deals
with the filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu.
‘Notebook on Cities and Clothes’ is a documentary film about Yohji
Yamamoto. Despite Wender's previous disdain for fashion, he undertook filming
after being commissioned by the Pompidou Center in Paris. The film loosely
centers on a series of interviews with Yamamoto, inter-spaced with footage of
his atelier, previous work and his then upcoming show. Notably, Yamamoto's
comments and philosophical musings lead Wenders to make his own comments about
the nature of cities, identity, and the role of cinema in modern life. ‘Room
666’ raises the pertinent query of the future of film.
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