Concept and realisation of the film for the overture of the opera by Paul Hindemith
Staatsoper Nürnberg / 2023
Film overture Mathis the Painter / pre-production / 7 min
Mathis is a successful artist with excellent connections to politics and business. But all
the public recognition cannot silence his self-doubt. What use is art? What is its purpose? What can it achieve? When the activist Schwalb asks him to him to work for a better society, Mathis throws himself into the into the arms of the revolution. But the brutality and contempt for art of the insurgents' brutality and contempt for art. He realises that the artist must stand on shaky ground if he wants to create art. Because every supposed certainty distracts from the essential: the work.
DIRECTOR Jens-Daniel Herzog MUSICAL DIRECTION Roland Böer STAGE Mathis Neidhardt COSTUMES Sibylle Gädeke VIDEO Rebecca Riedel VIDEO Collaboration Coco Bayer