Ein Dia-Abend von der Revolution

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: 2008

Synopsis: Between archival images and interviews from the present, Ein Dia-Abend von der Revolution (A Slide Show from the Revolution) creates a narrative of the 1968 movement at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The slides appropriated for the film were taken by the former superintendent of the Academy to document that the protest paintings by the students constituted property damage. Among those interviewed are Hans-Jochen Vogel, Johannes Constantinides, Alrun Prünster, Rita Mühlbauer, Raimer Jochims, and Wolfgang Schikora.

Language: German