Lawrence Weiner / A second quarter a film of Lawrence Weiner
WEINER Lawrence (New York, Bronx 1942 - 2021)
Berlin, DAAD, [stampa: Trubach], 1975, 42,4x60 cm., poster illustrated with 4 sepia images by Hermann Kiessling printed for the film “A second quarter a film of Lawrence Weiner” 85 min., Eastmancolor, A coproduction of DAAD Berlin and Moved Pictures NYC. Cinematography by Herlmut Wietz, music by Richard Landry, cast Lawrence Weiner, Beatrice Conrad-Eybesfeld, Hans Duttmann, Coosje Kapteyn, Tony Long, Kirsten Vibeke Thueson, Helmut Wietz. Folded copy.
[Bibliography: Benjamin H.D. Bauchloh 1986: pp. 50 - 51; Lailch 2005: pag. 169].
WEINER Lawrence (New York, Bronx 1942 - 2021)
Berlin, DAAD, [stampa: Trubach], 1975, 42,4x60 cm., poster illustrated with 4 sepia images by Hermann Kiessling printed for the film “A second quarter a film of Lawrence Weiner” 85 min., Eastmancolor, A coproduction of DAAD Berlin and Moved Pictures NYC. Cinematography by Herlmut Wietz, music by Richard Landry, cast Lawrence Weiner, Beatrice Conrad-Eybesfeld, Hans Duttmann, Coosje Kapteyn, Tony Long, Kirsten Vibeke Thueson, Helmut Wietz. Folded copy.
[Bibliography: Benjamin H.D. Bauchloh 1986: pp. 50 - 51; Lailch 2005: pag. 169].
WEINER Lawrence (New York, Bronx 1942 - 2021)
Berlin, DAAD, [stampa: Trubach], 1975, 42,4x60 cm., poster illustrated with 4 sepia images by Hermann Kiessling printed for the film “A second quarter a film of Lawrence Weiner” 85 min., Eastmancolor, A coproduction of DAAD Berlin and Moved Pictures NYC. Cinematography by Herlmut Wietz, music by Richard Landry, cast Lawrence Weiner, Beatrice Conrad-Eybesfeld, Hans Duttmann, Coosje Kapteyn, Tony Long, Kirsten Vibeke Thueson, Helmut Wietz. Folded copy.
[Bibliography: Benjamin H.D. Bauchloh 1986: pp. 50 - 51; Lailch 2005: pag. 169].
A Second Quarter is decidedly European; the “place” (Berlin) is the catalyst for the “action” (the work). The works recited in the film are concerned with barriers and borders, physical and geophysical phenomena. The characters also translate, count, and recite the alphabet. They build a narrative that is not a story to be followed dogmatically but rather a pattern from which to extract one’s version of what is seen. The scenes are set in an old bourgeois apartment, in an office near the West Berlin train station, and at the ruins of the Anhalter Bahnhof and its vicinity, with the Berlin Wall in the background. (vdb.org)
