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11/1/2003

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Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Wenzel Storch: 'Der Glanz dieser Tage'

All Wenzel Storch films are flamboyant and colurful, experimental cinema in the true sense of the word. They cultivate an anarchic discourse, relishing a rather baroque lust for images. When the movie 'Der Glanz dieser Tage' (the brilliance of these days) was premiered in 1989 it was celebrated by the critics as 'a little masterpiece, slighty off the trolley, full of religious pieces of wisdom'. Being a low budget film, Storch's debut feature used all the different filming techniques creating a kind of blasphemous re-invention of cinema - acting in the spirit of television, pop, punk or a punch-and-judy-show.
Be that as it may, Storch never found a distributor: in his well-directed igno-rance of prevalent story-telling klischees he made sure that distributing companies decided that this film could not be admitted to the general cinema audience.
To make a virtue of necessity Storch personally presented his film at festivals and in independent art-cinemas. This tour became a major success and founded the myth that surrounds Storch's work, his qualities as a director and his team of movie-obsessed laymen. With his production of 'Sommer der Liebe' (summer of love), made 1992 on Super-8-material and distributed by himself, he confirmed the myth and proved cinema-capability with an audience of more than 30,000. Being in deep water financing the sound-track of his third movie 'Coconut Dream' this film still awaits completion. But test-previews already confirmed this as a opulent masterpiece, a screen spectacular of design and fantasy.

Press reactions were spectacular as well: (German) 'Rolling Stone' counting Storch as Germanys most hopeful directing talent (9/2002) whereas 'Die Zeit' called his work an 'alchemistic art of turning deficiency into the unpredictable and amateurish dilettantism into big moments' (34/2000). Magazine 'Geo' sees him as the 'most curious of all German inventors of images' (11/2000) and the 'Spiegel' simply calls him a 'crazy genius' (7/2000).
The Sprengel Museum Hannover pays tribute to 'Der Glanz der Tage' as an almost forgotten masterpiece on the border of cinema, art and pictorial anarchy.

Additional information:
Photography and media: Inka Schube
Phone +49 511 168-462 11, Fax +49 511 168-450 93
Press and public relations: Michael Quasthoff
Phone +49 511 168-439 24, Fax +49 511 168-450 93

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