The Act of Seeing

by Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780571192120
• ISBN10: 0571192122
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Faber & Faber

Summary

Stimulating reflections on the cinema by one of Europe's major filmmakers.

Wim Wenders is the creator of such masterpieces as Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire. In this third volume of essays, now available in paperback, Wire Wenders takes the reader beyond the concerns of his own films and into that of architecture, cities, video technology, and fashion. In our overheated consumer society we are constantly bombarded with visual stimuli; how can images still have a meaning either for the viewer, or for filmmakers struggling to communicate their vision to the world?

Besides extended essays, there are also interviews and conversations, such as one in which Wenders and Jean-Luc Godard playfully ruminate over the state of cinema today.

Table of Contents

To the End of the World: Very first treatment for a film project	p. 3
Travelling in time	p. 7
The Act of Seeing	p. 18
Perceiving movement	p. 27
The truth of images	p. 44
The dubious revolution	p. 69
High definition	p. 74
Notebook on Clothes and Cities	p. 81
The urban landscape from the point of view of images	p. 93
Find myself a city to live in	p. 102
He paints his socks off	p. 123
Winter Marchen	p. 126
Eye colours	p. 129
A step ahead of the times	p. 131
For the city that dreams	p. 143
Not alone in a big house	p. 145
On the future of European cinema	p. 148
Talk about Germany	p. 152
On painters, montage and dustbins	p. 165
'I'm at home nowhere'	p. 172
King of Comedy	p. 174
Christ, Rainer	p. 177
On making it up as you go along	p. 183
Writing a screenplay is the worst	p. 190
On walls and spaces	p. 198
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