Climate Film Selection/ Germany, Austria, 2025, Color, 52'
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- Director: Mathias Frick
- Screenplay: Mathias Frick
- Editing: Filip Pampuch
- Music: Johannes Konecny
- Cinematography: Christopher Dürkop, Simone Hart, Sophie Krabbe, Maximilian Smoliner
- Producer: Eva Rink
- Production: VIVE la DOK Filmproduktion
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Recap
Climate Art sheds light on the role of contemporary art in the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis. Journalist Leonie Sontheimer takes us on a journey to influential artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado and Agnes Denes. Their works inspire, provoke and open up new perspectives on the subject. However, the film not only examines the art itself, but also its creators and existing structures. How do artists deal with their own CO2 footprint? How sustainable is a global art business that relies on transportation, travel and prestigious events? Can art fairs such as Art Basel or the Venice Biennale really be role models, or do they contradict the messages of their artists? Climate Art shows how artists around the world are transforming their powerlessness in the face of the climate crisis into creative resistance and activism. The film also includes one of the last interviews with Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado who passed on May 23, 2025.
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Director
Mathias Frick
Architect and film director Mathias Frick specializes in documentary films on culture, particularly art, artist portraits, architecture, and jazz. In 2006, he founded his company Film Moment. His films, commissioned by German, Swiss, Austrian, and French television, have been shown at international festivals and broadcast worldwide. Frick has collaborated with over forty museums and more than thirty artists, photographers, and architects, working with production companies across Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. He has received the Gerd Ruge Scholarship from Medienstiftung NRW and the Bosch Foundation's Crossing-Borders Scholarship for his film projects.
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