Jochen Gerz - Your.Art. (1998)
Like nobody ells German artist Jochen Gerz (born 1940) combines in his work cocept and emotion, culture and politics, memory and future, individual and collective destiny. Working with video, performance, photography and sculpture, but also interactive monuments which need the participation of the population, his art tends to be a mirror for reality, delivering the public from its passive role as viewers. Shot in his Paris studio, exhibitions worldwide but also his house on an island off the Canadian Pacific coast, the award-winning documentary presents old and new work, mixed with several interviews which present Gerz as a humanist with a lot of humour, but also as a deeply critical spirit towards today's media society and the art world, fighting for a new form of art in public spaces.
Video, 52'