The Future of Art
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Niermann and Niedling on the battlements of Castle Wachsenburg in Thuringia
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| Directed by |
Erik Niedling Ingo Niermann |
| Produced by | Erik Niedling Ingo Niermann |
| Written by | Ingo Niermann |
| Music by | Katrin Vellrath |
| Cinematography | Christian Görmer |
| Edited by | David Adlhoch |
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150 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English German |
The Future of Art is a 2010 documentary film by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann. It features interviews with protagonists of the contemporary art scene and premiered on November 10, 2010, in Berlin. The film was released on DVD in September 2011 accompanied by the book The Future of Art. A Manual, published by Sternberg Press.
Subsequent to the premiere screening, the movie was playing at the Angermuseum in Erfurt from November 10 to November 28, 2010. Until May 2011 the interviews were also shown as a web series at 3min.de, a video-sharing site of Deutsche Telekom.
The movie was mainly shot in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and New York.
The documentary starts with a short prologue (Niermann taking a bath in the Schlachtensee lake in Berlin), followed by the actual interviews which are divided into four main chapters:
Featured artists, curators, collectors, and critics include (in order of appearance):
Harald Falckenberg
Antje Majewski
Gregor Jansen
Tobias Rehberger
Thomas Bayrle
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