He is one of Germany’s most important artists, a man who has spent his life intervening, provoking, polarizing. No other contemporary artist has succeeded in capturing the German psychic landscape on canvas more arrestingly than Düsseldorf painter Jörg Immendorff. He has worked without pause, a driven man, devoting all of his strength to his work and his creative life. Then suddenly, in 1998, everything changed. A fatal illness had crept into his body. Jörg Immendorff’s painting hand, his left, became paralyzed during vacation. His general practitioner sent him to a neurologist, whose diagnosis was devastating: Immendorff had become a victim of the rare Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), which leads to paralysis of the musculature, and finally to an inexorable death by suffocation.
The documentary film “Jörg Immendorff – I Paint my Wound” accompanies the artist for as long as his illness permits. How does a man live in full knowledge of the inescapability of his situation, and how does this knowledge change his life and his art? This film is also an homage to an artist who, profoundly influenced by Joseph Beuys, has never ceased to struggle for a better world and to resist injustice — whether as an artist or as a human being.
Ich, Immendorf.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
Size: 1.43 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 720x576 ~> 1024x576
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 901 kb/s
BPP: 0.183
Audio
#1: German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 160 kb/s (Stereo)
https://nitro.download/view/07C0CEE27CF0558/Ich,_Immendorf.mkv
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English
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