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Saturday, April 9. Cavani’s Ripley’s Game (U.S., 2002). 7 p.m.; Wenders?? The American Friend (Germany, 1977). 9:30 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets available at the Harvard Film Archive...
...Carpenter Center exhibit was the brainchild of Eric Rentschler, chair of the department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Harvard. Rentschler, who also teaches in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, was well-acquainted with Wim Wenders??s films. He and Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, the director of the Carpenter Center and chair of VES, brought the Wenders exhibit to the Carpenter Center before its next stop in Washington...
...exhibit’s focus on the expansive horizon, the sharp contrast between the sky and the ground and the striking features of the land makes each photograph an extraordinary tableau to behold. For most people, the obvious interest in the exhibition is the relationship between Wenders??s cinematic and photographic works. But Melissa Davenport, who worked on this exhibition for the Carpenter Center, explains that it has the potential to appeal to a wider audience...
...photographs were taken with a Japanese Art Panorama camera, a replacement for Wenders??s stolen Russian Horizon camera. The Art Panorama, however, was extremely heavy, and the Aboriginals with whom Wenders traveled gave him the name “the madman with the camera.” Wenders defended his choice of cameras in the companion book to the exhibition, Wim Wenders: Photos...
...Wenders??s works in both media, he has focused on landscapes on the verge of obliteration or demolishment, from pre-unification Berlin in Wings of Desire to abandoned cities of the American West and decaying houses in Cuba in his new exhibit, “Pictures From the Surface of the Earth: Photographs by Wim Wenders,” which is being shown at the James Cohen Gallery in New York City through...