Out of Competition
North American Premiere

PEPPERS AND NUDES.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER EDWARD WESTON



Joachim Haupt, Sabine Pollmeier

Country of production: Germany
Year: 2004
Language: English
Mins: 26

Production company: Parnass Film
Producer: Sabine Pollmeier
Script: Joachim Haupt, Sabine Pollmeier
Cinematography: Roland Wagner
Editing: Gisela Castronari-Jaensch
Sound: Ralf Richter

Source: Parnass Film
Tel.: +49 89 2877-8989
Fax: +49 89 2877-8990
e-mail: mail@parnassfilm.de

This captivating portrait of photographer Edward Weston (1886 – 1958), narrated by his grandson, follows his life from a well-established studio in Los Angeles, through his sojourn in Mexico with his beloved Tina Modotti, where he photographs artists and revolutionaries, to 20 years spent in a cabin overlooking the Pacific. His lifelong photographic fascination with female nudes, transformed over time into the effort to find a purely abstract form in which he approximated the curves of a woman’s body using the folds of seashells, coastal cliffs and bell peppers.


Sabine Pollmeier studied Art History and Dramatics in Munich, followed by graduate course in Documentary Filmmaking and Television Journalism.

Joachim Haupt studied Modern German Literature, Modern History and Sociology in Mainz, Geneva and Munich. In 1993, he had his directorial with a documentary on underground techno scene in Berlin.

Selected Filmography:

Peppers and Nudes – The Photographer Edward Weston (2004)
HipHop de Luxe (2001)
Fette Beats und schnelle Reime (1999)
Eine Karierre in Hollywood (1997)
Die Farben: Schwarz (1997)
Die Schonheit der Transparenz (1996)

SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2005 AT 7.15 PM. / GALLERY THEATRE
SCREENING WITH ROBERT CAPA, THE MAN WHO BELIEVED HIS OWN LEGEND
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005 AT 12.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
SCREENING WITH ROBERT CAPA, THE MAN WHO BELIEVED HIS OWN LEGEND