Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Release Date: August 10, 2011 (NY)
Studio: An Alive Mind Cinema
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Anselm Kiefer, Klaus Dermutz
Genre: Documentary

Summary: A record of Anselm Kiefer, the 65-year-old world-renowned artist, as he creates a spectacular architectonic landscape. In 1993 (Kiefer) left his native Germany and settled in Barjac in France, where he bought a derelict silk factory, transforming it into an extraordinary artistic centre… at once the place where his paintings and sculptures are housed and displayed, and a colossal, evolving architectural artwork in itself. Fiennes begins by roaming through the tunnels and corridors of his studio-network: huge, disorienting shapes and forms loom, composed of earth and mud. There are giant, organic pillars, like stalagmites or termite mounds, a visual or conceptual rhyme to the towers built outside… Fiennes’s emphases are almost abstract: color, light, texture, form – and to these, she adds sound, using the music of Jörg Widmann and György Ligeti… (Kiefer’s) artistry looks as if it could be taking place centuries ago, and yet it feels very modern… A deeply serious meditation on artistic practice and expression.