A film by Pina Bausch, 1990
Pina Bausch’s experimental film was produced in the period between October 1987 and April 1988. The choreographer and her dancers left the theatre to go outside – into the cold, the autumnal forest and the wet fields of the countryside around Wuppertal. Irritating and impressive in equal measure, the film consists of freely collaged and assembled images.
The Lichtburg returns to its previous incarnation as a cinema. Documentary films made in different decades and from different perspectives look at the work of Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Among the directors are Chantal Akerman, Klaus Wildenhahn, Lee Yanor, Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch herself.