{"id":337,"date":"2015-02-11T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantis-film.de\/?p=337"},"modified":"2024-10-05T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T15:08:33","slug":"luise-kimme-i-always-wanted-to-sculpt-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantis-film.de\/en\/luise-kimme-i-always-wanted-to-sculpt-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"Luise Kimme – “I always wanted to sculpt Apollo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her self-built dream house in Bethel, Tobago, she carves Caribbean dancers from German Oak, and has turned into one of the important representatives of Afro-Caribbean art. She\u00b4s one of the few people who have turned their dreams into reality and are able to share their experience in an exciting way. This is a timeless and fresh appeal to the courage it takes to live a self-determined life.<\/p>\n

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1994 – 2012
\nLength:<\/strong> 55 minutes
\nDirected by:<\/strong> Eike Schmitz
\nIdea:<\/strong> Holger Rusch
\nAssistant director:<\/strong> Doris Schilz
\nCamera:<\/strong> Holger Rusch
\nSound:<\/strong> Marius Meller
\nEditor:<\/strong> Mathieu Honor\u00e9
\nSound design & mix:<\/strong> Sebastian Reuter
\nProducer:<\/strong> Eike Schmitz
\nAn Atlantis-Film Production
\nEnglish & German \/ with English subtitles
\nWorldwide distribution: Atlantis-Film<\/p>\n

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Luise Kimme, an energetic woman from Bremen, moves between the worlds, between oak-forest and palm grove, working as an art-teacher at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf (Academy of Arts D\u00fcsseldorf) and in her workshop in Tobago.
\nThe raw material for her large sculptures can be found around the idyllic village Kronenburg in Western Germany. Here one of the main Nazi leaders, Hermann G\u00f6ring, had once founded the Meisterschule f\u00fcr Malerei (Masterschool of Painting).<\/p>\n

Huge oak trees surround the school buildings, but many have been felled by the storm \u201cDaria\u201d in 1990. Out of those trees the sculptor, who is only 1\u00b452 meters tall, creates elegant black dancers, which she forces from the wood with a chainsaw, a hammer and a chisel. It\u00b4s a fight against nature and ageing, a struggle against herself and the rules of the art world.<\/p>\n

In a playful and unpretentious way, the movie tells the story about the life and art of a gifted artist who has created an impressive work of art apart from any political correctness, driven by her enthusiasm for the beauty of the Caribbean people and their folklore:
\n\u201cwhen I think some guy is great, I carve him and then I have him for myself!\u201d<\/p>\n

Website: http:\/\/www.luisekimme.com\/<\/a><\/h5>\n
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