Presented in partnership with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The film will be available to stream from November 19, 4PM CST to November 21, 4PM CST.
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About the film:
2019 | 89 min | Germany
One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work. Newton's unique and striking way of depicting women has always posed the question: did he empower his subjects or treat them as sexual objects? Through candid interviews with Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, Anna Wintour, Claudia Schiffer, Marianne Faithfull, Hanna Schygulla, Nadja Auermann, and Newton's wife June (a.k.a. photographer Alice Springs), this documentary captures his legacy and seeks to answer questions about the themes at the core of his life's work – creating provocative and subversive images of women. The film also features Newton’s own home movies, archival footage (including a pointed exchange with Susan Sontag) and, of course, scores of iconic Newton photographs. The result: a wildly entertaining portrait of a controversial genius.
About the filmmaker:
Gero von Boehm is the author and director of documentaries and documentary productions for ARD, ZDF, ARTE, FRANCE 3 and Swiss television. His topics range between science, art and contemporary history. Von Boehm is a two-time winner of the Bavarian Television Award, the Eduard Rhein Foundation’s Culture Award and the German Media Journalism Award, among other awards. Since 2011 he has been Chavalier des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic and a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York.
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