Trailer
Year
2016
Length
75 min
Director
Kamilla Pfeffer
Who is Oda Jaune?
A film about an artist and her creations; a personal, increasingly intimate portrait of a young woman who had to leave her past behind in order to find her future.
She paints bodies that are mutilated and disfigured, naked and sexless, faceless. Disturbing paintings, painful paintings. And she paints faces radiating happiness, people in paradise, people who can fly. Tender, touching paintings. Born in Bulgaria in 1979, Oda Jaune studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, becomes a master scholar of Jörg Immendorff. And she becomes his wife. After Immendorff’s death in 2007, she leaves Germany to start over somewhere else. She moves to Paris, finds a studio in the city – and she finds a gallerist: Daniel Templon, who already exhibited Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. And now: Oda Jaune.
The filmmaker Kamilla Pfeffer, fascinated by Jaune’s paintings, wants to meet the artist, make her the center of her first feature documentary. But already getting in touch with Oda Jaune proves to be a challenge. Almost two years and several meetings pass before she agrees to being in the film. Finally, they settle on a seemingly simple plan: over the course of several weeks the director and her cinematographer will join Oda Jaune in the studio and capture the process of creating new paintings for an upcoming exhibition. But it soon becomes apparent that the nature of what is supposed to be captured makes it almost impossible not to destroy that very thing in the process.
The filmmaker’s quest to find out who Oda Jaune is takes a turn, the new strategy involving inspiration from Marcel Proust’s famous questionnaire as well as encounters with others reflecting on Jaune’s paintings, including actor Lars Eidinger, director Thomas Ostermeier and fellow artist Jonathan Meese.
Directed by
Kamilla Pfeffer
Cinematography
Magdalena Hutter
Sound Mixing
Ralf Schipke
Music
Markus Aust
Editing
Rune Schweitzer
Stefanie Kosik
Supervisors
Prof. Dietrich Leder
Prof. Dr. Sabine Rollberg
Andreas Altenhoff
Executive Producer
Christian Beetz
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
