Trailer Tuesday - PINA by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders' PINA premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on 13th February and is now being released across Europe.
Known as the first 3D arthouse film, it's an homage to the German expressionist choreographer Pina Bausch, known for her unique creations that transformed the language of dance and offered a visual experience like no other.
PINA is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders. The feature-length dance film was shot in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and shows the exhilarating and inimitable art of the great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009, inviting the viewer on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: right onto the stage of the legendary ensemble and together with the dancers beyond the theater, into the city and the surrounding industrial landscape of Wuppertal – the place that was the home and center of Pina Bausch's creative life for more than 35 years.
I leave you with these lovely words by Wim Wenders about Pina Bausch.
INVENTOR OF A NEW ART FORM
No, there was no hurricane that swept across the stage,
there were just … people performing
who moved differently then I knew
and who moved me as I had never been moved before.
After only a few moments I had a lump in my throat,
and after a few minutes of unbelieving amazement
I simply let go of my feelings
and cried unrestrainedly.
This had never happened to me before…
maybe in life, sometimes in the cinema,
but not when watching a rehearsed production,
let alone choreography.
This was not theatre, nor pantomime,
nor ballet and not at all opera.
Pina is, as you know,
the creator of a new art.
Dance theatre.
Until now movement as such has never touched me.
I always regarded it as a given.
One just moves. Everything moves.
Only through Pina's Tanztheater have I learned to value
movements, gestures, attitudes, behaviour, body language,
and through her work learned to respect them.
And anew every time when, over the years I saw Pina's pieces, many times and again, did I relearn, often like being struck by thunder,
that the simplest and most obvious is the most moving at all:
What treasure lies within our bodies, to be able to express itself without words, and how many stories can be told without saying a single sentence.