German filmmaker and writer Wim Vendors on Monday at a private hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. He is visiting the city as part of ‘Wim Vendors – King of the Road – The India Tour’. , Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran

Traveling, like traveling, wim wenders are difficult to separate from films, as they are internal for their process and the narratives of their film. In Alice in cities , Paris, Texas (1984) Ry Cooder’s slide would have been incomplete without guitar. In wings of Desire (1987), an Angel runs in a nick cave concert and Right day (2023) was an ideal rock mixtap in the form of its soundtrack.

So, when 80 -year -old German filmmaker, one of the major figures of contemporary world cinema, sat for an interview Hindu In Thiruvananthapuram, the first question was to be essentially about music.

Shaking the world

“When I grew up, music was personally the initial point for me. All these musicians, these Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones or Beatles were all of my age and this huge rock n ‘roll, part of the youth movement. I realized that if they were able to rock the world, perhaps I could have done so. There was no film culture in my country in the 1960s Germany. Says Mr. Vendors, “I had the courage to make films due to the music performed by the people of my generation. The filmmaker is here as the part of ‘King of the Road’, his first India Tour and Retrospective, which is a film Has been organized by the Heritage Foundation with Goethe-Estitute.

Mr. Vendors grew up in Germany who was only recovering from the destruction of World War II and was also a shame of Nazism. His creative discovery began as 6 years of age, using “small plastic cameras” which his father gifted. This attraction with photography is clear in their street movies wide, stable frames and in many of their heroes that essentially photograph. Before settling in films, their interests will cross through painting.

“I grew up in a country that did not exist, a culture that was ruined and I felt that my generation had to start completely with scratches. Starting from scratches is something very healthy and more freedom if you have grown in a tradition. I did not like the German culture with which I was facing. I thought it was a foil. I liked that what I got from American culture, a substitute culture that I was infected for a long time. But then this American dream faded and almost became the opposite. The journey has been an integral part of my life ever since I was a little boy. I could not go back then, but I wanted. I realized that the world was much more beautiful than my own city, where everything was in ruins, ”says Mr. Vendors.

As one of the forearm of the new German cinema, their style bent more towards the document than manipulating in time. The elements of cinema fled in their documentaries and vice versa. But, he says, he never had a filmmaking process.

“The biggest mistake after my first few films was thinking that now I was a filmmaker because I knew how to do it. If you work out of routine or experience, you are not a filmmaker. It is lazy and disqualified. You are only a filmmaker if you know how to react to something and know how to do it as if you have not done it before. Every film will have to invent how to make it, ”he says.

But Mr. Vendors, who hate the routine, regularly turned into a piece of art, and something that people wanted in their film Right day Through the routine of photographing the sunlight through the leaves of hero Hirama and through their musical drives to work.

“I invented in a way that he did his regular work of cleaning public toilets, but filled it with his entire soul. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of ​​showing a routine in a way that it would become more interesting. If he does his work everyday as a craftsman with scratches and every day he does it as good as he can do and as it was new, perhaps it is interesting. So that was the beginning Right day“Says Mr. Vendors.

German filmmaker Vim Vendor Shivendra Singh was the founder of the film Heritage Foundation in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday along with Dungarpur. , Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur of the film Heritage Foundation was accompanied by a chance meeting with the global capital of the global capital of the film, which led to the much awaited visit to India.

“I knew Dungarpur who was doing amazing work. So when he came up with the idea of ​​a tour of India, I could not say ‘no’, because India was always like an incredible dream, “he says. But would he set a film in India, as he In many other countries, it can be very well, but you can not force it and take photos for me more intense ways. The place is a lot of time. Let’s see what comes out of it.