Wim Wenders on photography, Trump, Brexit and Harvey Weinstein
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2017
- He is known for his slow-moving and beautifully-shot films like ‘Wings of Desire’, but director Wim Wenders has also spent his life taking tens of thousands of polaroid photographs.
The quietly-spoken German became very animated indeed discussing Trump, Brexit and the Harvey Weinstein allegations.
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What's the point in interviewing someone if you already have the narrative you want before the interview has even started? Have a conversation. Listen. Be present. This is embarrassing journalism.
no, a great interviewer knows his subject, he opens the door. this was a great interview.
Wim Wenders response is embarrassing. He's about as pretentious as a person can possibly be here.
Love Wim Wenders. It's always unfortunate when a wonderful artist is interviewed by people who aren't good at it. Especially the ones that interrupt, assuming comments and opinions.
Annoying, over-eager interviewer. Does not seem at all interested in what Wenders has to say
I dont like the interviewer "You dont like selfies righhhht? Cause selfies are bad righhhhht?"
Love your username. Favorite movie ever
I'd be mocking everything Wim pretentiously says here too. Cameras on phones are cameras. He's a pretentious person. With his Polaroid picture art show.
@@apostaloteworst Kubrick film. By far.
a wonderful man, one of the most creatives in this sad world
He comes across like a remarkably pretentious arrogant person.
I admire this mans work and character and agree with many of opinions. ( will also use his term Mr. 45 for that fellow *****)
Win Wenders speaks truth! Grateful to hear him share all this. We need more of it!
Wim Wenders was so gracious with this terrible interviewer... what a flat interviewer, no depth in the questions, jumping onto the next, no flow... demanding, interrupting with 'why not?'. Argffffffff If you want a good interview, check out Eleanor Wachtel, Writers and Company on CBC. 2011
You Wim Wenders fans are almost as pretentious as he is. With his Polaroids lol
So intelligent, creative and insightful
A million miles doing roadshows. Setting alarm to catch those sunrises. Away from news, radio, late, and early light.
There should be some sort of "matching" between interviewed and interviewer, some "chemistry"...
You can print them.
Once an excellent artist becomes rich and famous they usually have a tendency to say pretentious bullshit that isn’t true.
@@JonathanNelsonOfficial You don't have to be an excellent artist or rich and famous to say pretentious bullshit that isn't true (refer to above comment)
He speaks same way as when he was young.... same vision of life.
Caustic humour. Sharp as a razor.
Very funny - reminds one of how movies and movie - makers can be and maybe should be;) entertaining
Wenders talking about "Europe" when he actually means the "European Union"
it's so surprising coming from an artist like him. You'd think he would cherish liberty and political independence and freedom from PC and backward religions, but no...he's politically brainwashed... what a shame.
He is not brainwashed. He is faithful to his values. Rare.
So, I've always been fascinated by things like chemical photography, vinal sound recordings, etc. VHS gets a lot of hassle these days but it was a brilliant solution to the problem of storing video on magnetic tape. This guy is mistaken about digital cameras. You can keep your photos... they do, in fact, exist. Just as digital bits on a storage device. You can even print them out into hard copy if you want. Nothing's stopping you.
Disthron I think you may have read him a bit to literally. You can absolutely print digital images, but his point is that in being able to copy/share/post them ad infinitum, digital information buries itself so quickly that it is lost like a grain of sand on a beach. Some digital images will be printed, but of the trillions taken globally, most will end up scrap in a landfill on a discarded hard drive. The unique physical nature of the Polaroid is that it reflects a specific coordinate in space-time and is the only record of that space-time event that will ever exist for all of eternity.
@@abstractentities354 I think his comments reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how these things work. And while I can understand that he is quite old and these things can sometimes be frustrating. I'm not going to let the idea that digital photos aren't real go unchanged.
He's underlining the Laziness, Lack of Rigor, and self-infatuated narcissism of those who would have digital "phone photography" supplant chemical photography. Over 99% of phone-captured images will never be seen outside of a 3x6 flickering screen with the color values and detail of the image completely dependent on the device used for viewing and, with the "sharing" of the images from device to device, the image will degrade far faster than its traditional material counterpart.
@@Disthron "his comments reveal a fundamental misunderstanding"
not all old people are out of touch.
the benefits of loving long are that you can compare.
he doesn't compare the technical aspects, but the social aspects; how people interact with the art. a polaroid was a ritual.
ignoring that, is missing the point.
PS he doesnt say digital isn't real, he was talking about iphones.
What’s so disappointing about “nr.45”? The fact that he hasn’t started any war?
The only reason I look at Facebook is memories of the day. Each day from years earlier floating on a cloud.
Wim Wenders👍
“A lot of old folks voted to take their future away”. Exactly right.
Great interview.
Charming guy . 😂
Wim comes from Rhine valley which was a Roman province
However, He forgets what Germans did to Britain in 2-nd WW
Germans should be the last one to criticize Brexit
also in view of the EU economic policy led by Merkel
Great Artists can be forgiven their political naivete...pitifully immature......YET, we should all admire and exalt the Man's steadfast embracing of Christianity.
funny how the blind and hateful call the hopeful immature. it's one constant throughout history.
Looking back from 2023: The past six years have deconstructed so many of the gains made. Now we have the horror of Ukraine. I would be fascinated to hear what Wim Wenders makes of all that!
Terrible interviewer. he did not grasp an inch of this wonderful artist. But still Wim shown.
At the start I got the impression he was a little out of touch, but his politics are immaculate to me and he speaks so articulately about his views. Shame about the untalented interviewer.
Unfortunately it has to be said open, people don't have enough work and money and that's what creates the problems, the rich getting richier the poor poorer and suddenly emigration is the cause of the mess that how people see it and politicians see this and to get to power is the easiest way to put petrol in to the fire, so I guess its the easiest way to get to nationalism
yeah, that's right Matt, try harder.
Anti climax
I doubt this great artist actually knows that much about 45 . Perhaps he believes his contemporaries hate him so he joins as a virtue signal.
Ah yes bunch Trump Brexit and Weinstein together.
Respect him for his movies. Surprised how clueless he is about politics.
That's your opinion
and why do you say that?
Well, at least the "arrogant" elites put a mirror in front of your face so as to see your resentment and your hate, that s what you strongly dislike. While Trump tells you just what you want to hear, a mere projection, a puppet for the rich who become even richer thank to Trump s libertarian politicies.
@@moira7378 I heard someone say, “You hate by accusing people of hate.”
@@alteredcatscyprusthat someone is deflecting.
pointing out hate will always be called hateful by people who have no other retort. holding on to victimhood.
it's a popular excuse for centuries.
interesting interview, worst sound mix Ive ever heard, terrible sound editing and mixing!!
Episode 15 of how to turn an interview in to a Trump bashing. This week a chat with a German filmmaker.
Wim was happy to go there and he is just as free to express himself as you or anyone else is. America has embarrassed itself by electing trump and deserves the ridicule from the rest of world it gets. There's my opinion and I'm also free to express it as you are.
Hear, hear!
You never hear any one of them actually express in detail what offends them so deeply about Trump. Wonder what he thinks of "46"?
For such an interesting filmmaker he genuinely sounds clueless about the contemporary world/life. It's clear he lives in a bubble.
Any artist lives in a bubble... but he is still a great observer of today's world curious of new tools.... funny how you accept this boring flat
journalist... symptom of awful media of today
Wenders, who is incomparable as a filmmaker to me, here is exposing he knows little about photography. For example, he assumes that the making virtual of appearance of personal experiences began with digital photography, and that analogue film is "actually sharing." Not only is a polaroid, for example, a virtual representation of what someone would have needed to be present to actually experience (and that people complained about in much the same way as Wim) but analogue photography isn't even the first example of this virtualization of experience. Even oral storytelling, to those who were not there to experience the events themselves, is a making virtual of that which was once not. Also, Wim specifically states that photography saved him from the fact he was a shitty painter. This betrays another huge misinterpretation on WIm's part but that has plagued photography since the technology was discovered. Namely, it betrays the assumption that photography ever aspired to be photography, which is the same as saying photography aspired always to what, until photography, it could not attain to. It belies a fundamental ignorance regarding not only what art is but that each medium of communication communicates fundamentally uniquely.
can you elaborate more? I think you're getting somewhere here but I am not following all the way.
he is as accomplished a photographer as ANYONE out there - i'd have to challenge you on that
you're missing the point he was making about giving versus sharing.
i'm a fan, but he's got way too much angst
there is no such thing 🤟🏼
How can he be so clueless?
age.
israel isnt in Europe!! Barf!!!!
Mediocre journalism at its best
Love Wenders,...
and I love Trump!