The Image Inside - a Portrait of the Painter Gerda Lepke
Director Wolfgang Scholz
Countries
Duration 54 min
Synopsis
A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a world of observation and being observed. A documentary about the kafkaeske life enclosed in her studio space and her mother’s small house and garden. With an insite of the difficulties of a female painter who grew up in the time of Eastern Germany (GDR). A meeting and friendship that began in the mid eighties, led me into the ”Garden of the painter”. This gave me the closeness and made it possible for me to realize a portrait of a painter in her own words, as she speaks to herself. I received, in each phase of the film’s production, surprise new encounters with the work and life of the artist Gerda Lepke. WHScholz 2008
A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a world of observation and being observed. A documentary about the kafkaeske life enclosed in her studio space and her mother’s small house and garden. With an insite of the difficulties of a female painter who grew up in the time of Eastern Germany (GDR). A meeting and friendship that began in the mid eighties, led me into the ”Garden of the painter”. This gave me the closeness and made it possible for me to realize a portrait of a painter in her own words, as she speaks to herself. I received, in each phase of the film’s production, surprise new encounters with the work and life of the artist Gerda Lepke. WHScholz 2008