Why glass culture must not die
Glass makers' documentary now available with English subtitles:
Katharina Eisch-Angus and Klaus Hernitschek
THE JOURNEY OF THE GLASS ARK
(D 2007, 96 min)
„... but a glass heart can crack.“
An art project was the beginning: From 2005 anthropologist Katharina Eisch-Angus and documentary film maker Klaus Hernitschek followed, with camera and microphone, the famous glass ark through the Bavarian Forest glass works.
Unintentionally they hit the decisive moment between a hopeful flourishing of new creative and artistic energies and the complete regional downfall of glass making. The result is a evocative document that once again shows the connection of glass to culture and humanity, arousing questions about the “unavoidable” losses of globalisation.
With its 2007 premiere in the Frauenau Glass Museum and its British premiere at the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge 2008 the documentary film has touched and amazed its audience in the glass and art world as well as many other people.
„Great European documentary cinema“ ( Europa-Filmfest München)
„A painful stab right into the glass heart“ (Passauer Neue Presse)
The DVD, with English subtitles, European and US format, is available from www.visuelle-ethnographie.de (18.90 € / 26.70 $), retailers contact info@eisch.fischer.de
Katharina Eisch-Angus and Klaus Hernitschek
THE JOURNEY OF THE GLASS ARK
(D 2007, 96 min)
„... but a glass heart can crack.“
An art project was the beginning: From 2005 anthropologist Katharina Eisch-Angus and documentary film maker Klaus Hernitschek followed, with camera and microphone, the famous glass ark through the Bavarian Forest glass works.
Unintentionally they hit the decisive moment between a hopeful flourishing of new creative and artistic energies and the complete regional downfall of glass making. The result is a evocative document that once again shows the connection of glass to culture and humanity, arousing questions about the “unavoidable” losses of globalisation.
With its 2007 premiere in the Frauenau Glass Museum and its British premiere at the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge 2008 the documentary film has touched and amazed its audience in the glass and art world as well as many other people.
„Great European documentary cinema“ ( Europa-Filmfest München)
„A painful stab right into the glass heart“ (Passauer Neue Presse)
The DVD, with English subtitles, European and US format, is available from www.visuelle-ethnographie.de (18.90 € / 26.70 $), retailers contact info@eisch.fischer.de
Bordredaktion - 2009-06-06 08:47
