Papa Spectaculi

Director: Franz Wanner    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Franz Wanner, born in 1975, finished his training as a photographer and filmmaker before studying fine arts and media theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). Texts, photo series, films, and objects have been published under the pseudonym Franz Wanner since 1996. In his book The Presumption (2011) they appear as the plot of a nonlinear screenplay. In 2012 he received the City of Munich’s Scholarship for Fine Arts. Since then he has been working on the narrative cycle Toxin – Antitoxin. Clinical Pictures of a Town, which was shown for the first time in 2013 at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Since 2009, Franz Wanner has lectured at several universities and teaching institutions in the fields of fine art and film.

Country: Germany

Year: 2005

Synopsis: I wanted to get to heaven, but the airspace was blocked.

Papa Spectaculi dissects the production of Pope John Paul II’s funeral into a visual layer of documentary photographs and a sound layer that includes striking sounds from the spectacle. With its animated text, the montage generates a perspective not taken by mass media reporting.

Language: without dialogue