Wim Wenders' 3D Portrait of Anselm Kiefer: A Reverent and Magnificent Documentary

Wim Wenders' documentary about German artist Anselm Kiefer presents his work in all its giganticism, with minimal archival interview material, and some fancifully conceived but successfully executed fantasy scenes of the artist in boyhood and young adulthood. The film is presented in 3D, accentuating the physicality of Kiefer's creations, and shows his vast studio areas, including his 40-hectare atelier site La Ribaute in Barjac, near Nîmes in the south of France. Kiefer's work is driven by Germany's dark past, and the film suggests that it is in the ruins of 1945, the year of the artist's birth, that the seed of inspiration is to be found.