AHNEN ahnen – A film by Pina Bausch
FSK released from the age of 6.
AHNEN ahnen - Rehearsal Fragments
With this inexpensively shot film Pina Bausch gives a glimpse into the day-to-day work of rehearsals. Uncompromising, without a thought for the potential spectators´ viewing habits or the build up of dramatic tension, she works with film – a new medium for her – showing only what interests her.
While Pina Bausch was preparing her film The Plaint of the Empress in 1987, the French, British and German co-producers were waiting for a script. No script: no film. That is how the film industry say things. The discussion dragged on but eventually the TV stations accepted the idea of shooting the film without a script. Someone had the idea of making a “test film” showing what the results of working in Pina Bausch´s way could be. That´s how this film was born – a documentary on the rehearsals for Ahnen, a piece she was developing at the time. For twenty five years the film stayed in the archives; today it emerges as an extraordinary document. This is how Pina Bausch and her company worked. This is how this work was created, that touched so many people and continues to do so today.
Edited version from 2014, first released on DVD in collaboration with L’Arche Éditeur, Paris. Duration: 78 minutes.
Featuring:
Jakob Andersen – Pina Bausch – Bénédicte Billiet – Matthias Burkert – Rolando Brenes Calvo – Antonio Carallo – Marion Cito – Finola Cronin – Dominique Duszynski – Josephine Ann Endicott – Melanie Karen Lien – Lutz Förster – Kyomi Ichida – Urs Kaufmann – Ed Kortlandt – Beatrice Libonati – Anne Martin – Dominique Mercy – Jan Minarik – Helena Pikon – Hans Pop – Monika Sagon – Jean Laurent Sasportes – Mark Sieczkarek – Julie Anne Stanzak – Francis Viet
Urs Kaufmann, Francis Viet and Julie Anne Stanzak during the creation of the piece Ahnen (from the film AHNEN ahnen).
© Pina Bausch Foundation
