From Inside Out - Die Architektur von Peter Zumthor

Seine Bauten, sagt er, müssen freundlich zu ihrer Umgebung sein.
In ihren Ort sollen sie sich einfügen wie etwas, das schon immer da war. Er wünscht sich, dass seine Arbeiten dessen Geschichte vollenden. Dabei interessiert ihn das Außen wenig; er denkt Architektur aus den Räumen heraus, die sich zur Welt öffnen. Dieser Widerspruch, der keiner ist, fasziniert Wim Wenders. Und es scheint, als hätten die Bauten des Schweizer Architekten Peter Zumthor nur auf den deutschen Filmemacher gewartet. Kameramann Franz Lustig erkundet schwebend ihre Konkretion und Philosophie; das 3D-Format fängt mit atemberaubender Präzision ihre Aura ein. (Gerhard Midding)

Few filmmakers are as devoted to the poetic possibilities of 3D technology as Wim Wenders. Made almost two decades after his first venture into stereoscopic imagery, FROM INSIDE OUT – THE ARCHITECTURE OF PETER ZUMTHOR finds the filmmaker displaying the same technical prowess that characterises much of his later non-fiction work. It is arguably through this sense of belonging to a craft that he finds a kinship with Peter Zumthor, the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect at the centre of the film. From alpine houses and rural chapels to sombre memorial sites and lavish art museums, Zumthor has completed few buildings, yet the ones he has are highly refined in their approach to functionality, materiality and sensibility. Skilfully moulding the architect’s vision of light, shadow, texture and volume into a dynamic film language, Wenders leads the viewer into an immersive experience of each site through his roaming camera. Zumthor himself appears in only a handful of interviews and remains an unassuming documentary subject, allowing his designs to speak for themselves, often through the experiences of their present or imaginary users, makers and dwellers, whom Wenders elegantly captures in quasi-fictional fragments. (Öykü Sofuoğlu)

Wim Wenders (Auswahl): DIE ANGST DES TORMANNS BEIM ELFMETER (1971), ALICE IN DEN STÄDTEN (1974), IM LAUF DER ZEIT (1976), DER AMERIKANISCHE FREUND (1977), PARIS, TEXAS (1984), DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN (1987), BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT (1991), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999), PINA (2011), PERFECT DAYS (2023)