A film about Wolfgang Tillmanns

Fortunately,  I was able to see a film about photographer Wolfgang Tillmanns yesterday at the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Berlin based director Heiko Kalmbach accompanied Tillmanns for several years and made this interesting documentary, showing a lot of private moments but also the artistic process which is very special with Tillmanns work (e.g. the way he hangs his photographs on the wall when he has a show – this can easily take several days…).

As far as I know, this film isn’t available on DVD, but maybe there are more screenings soon, I’ll keep you updated if I learn more about that.

If One Thing Matters
- a film about Wolfgang Tillmans

by Heiko Kalmbach, D/USA 2008, 72 min.

See also the PDF here.

In the documentary there is also a sequence that shows how the british band Pet Shop Boys ask Wolfgang Tillmanns to do a music video for them, “Home and dry”. In the beginning, the concept for the clip was very different from what it turned out to be later, and Tillmanns ended up to show mice in the London tube…Like that one.