Completacion del rodaje y edicion de NOCHE DEL NUEVE DE NOVIEMBRE.
- Un documental referente a los ninos y el holocausto en el arte de Gottfried Helnwein. Director: Henning Lohner
Co-Director & Editor: Max Carlson
Comentaristas: Sean Penn, Maximilian Schell, Jason Lee
Texto introductorio de Simon Wiesenthal
Director de Fotografia: Darren Rydstrom
Camara Adicional: Jason Lee, Bernd Reinhardt
Helmut Lohner conversa con Gottfried Helnwein ...

* Gottfried Helnwein, artista, nacido en Vienna, 1948
* Theodor Herzl "fundador" de Israel, vivio la amyor parte de su vida en Austria
* Adolf Hitler, dictator de Alemania de 1933-1945, nacido el 20 de abril de 1889 en Braunau am Inn ...

Helnwein’s 20-by-60 foot outdoor installation “Modern Sleep 2003”, as well as photographs from his collaboration with Marilyn Manson, are included in the show, which opens with this evening’s gala and is open to the general public Friday through Sunday at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar.
“Modern Sleep 2003” (digital print) is the latest in a series dating back to the 1980s and reflects Helnwein’s use of children in questioning the human condition. It includes two images of a girl. In one, her skin is pale white, and she is dressed in black. In the other, she is black, dressed in white. In both images, her expression is death-like.
“They have open eyes, so modern sleep doesn’t mean they are just sleeping,” says Helnwein. “It might mean something else.” ...

Instalacion "Modern Sleep", 2003, impresion digital sobre vinilo, 20 por 60 pies, frente al Barker Hangar en la Exposicion de Los Angeles, 2003,
3021 Airport Avenue at Santa Monica Airport. ...

Helnwein:
I always thought – how did I end up in a place like this? What was I doing here? The only thing I knew was that this was not home – I didn’t belong here. But who was I then? Where did I come from?
I was a stranger, whose spaceship had crashed on an unknown planet and so was stranded with no possibilities of ever leaving again. Not only did I seem to have lost my orientation through the impact of the crash, but my memory as well, because I had forgotten who I was and where I came from. There was only one thing I was certain of: that this was an alien world in whose merciless embrace I was now caught. It was like the aftermath of a sloppy end of the world, where the few people that had survived, now continued cautiously to vegetate amongst the ruins, hoping to remain unnoticed by the Eternal Judge.
What I didn’t know then was that I had been born shortly after my stupid ancestors had lost the second of the two world-wars that they had caused within the last 30 years – which had turned 1000 years of culture into ashes and annihilated the lives of more than 50 million people
And when I found the photographs of my father, my grandfathers and my uncles all in uniforms of Hitler’s army, I started to ask questions.
Unfortunately, I was speaking either in the wrong tongue or they also suffered amnesia, because I never got any answers. But I was a very insistent child and I never gave up asking, despite the fact that it didn’t get me anywhere.
And then there was this one miraculous moment when I turned 18, this instance of revelation - suddenly I knew there was a way out: I had to become an artist. And I started to paint. I didn’t know much about the art-world and other artists, and I didn’t care about styles and techniques. I just began to formulate my old questions now as images, and step by step I developed my own visual language.
But I was not prepared for the avalanche of emotional reactions that my little watercolor-paintings triggered, I was quite surprised to realize that suddenly I seemed to be in possession of a superior magic language, capable of cutting through everything and reaching deep into the hearts of people and moving and touching them. And to my amazement this nation of mutes started to talk, to respond, to shout, to cry and to whisper. And I found myself in a very emotional and powerful dialogue with a growing number of people, that never stopped and became the momentum and destiny of my life.
When I started to paint I didn’t feel I had any message, my art was not an answer – it was a question. ...

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1987 - Helnwein-Performance at tank-camp Kopal of the Austrian Army ...

Poemas y novelas, cine y fotografia, pintura y performances, monumentos y reliquias, inclusive tiras comicas son las formas culturales que nos involucran en la catastrofica y traumatica historia.
A traves de estos ojos tenemos que conocer eventos que retan la posibilidad de ser representados. Nos hemos vuelto testigos de la hitoria. ...