Filmmaker Wim Wenders—The Entire Caboddle

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Filmmaker Wim Wenders premiered two new films at Cannes this year — Anselm, a 3-D, cutting edge documentary about the contemporary German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, and Perfect Days, a quiet, meditative film about a toilet cleaner in Kyoto who who drives from job to job, listening to music on cassettes — Patti Smith, the Kinks, Lou Reed…

Ernst Wilhelm “Wim” Wenders, filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, is a major figure in New German Cinema and global cinema. His films include Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, The American Friend, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, Buena Vista Social Club, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Pina, Until the End of the World, and many more.

In honor of Wim and his extraordinary work, this story, from our Keepers series chronicles the filmmaker’s life and inspirations. In our interview with Wim he told us about the impact Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française had on his own filmmaking, about Lotte Eisner, Werner Herzog, and much more.

Produced by Vika Aronson and The Kitchen Sisters. Mixed by Jim McKee.

Special thanks to Tom Luddy, Robb Moss, Homi Bhabha, Haden Guest, Sophia Hoffinger, Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton. And most of all, to Wim Wenders who has inspired us across the years.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters presents PRX. We are the Kitchen Sisters,
0:07.1	Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. The people who make our fellow radio topia show
0:12.2	everything is alive, the interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects
0:17.1	are bringing you something different this year. Right now in the everything is alive feed,
0:22.0	you'll find a brand new special series called The Animals, an interview show in which all the
0:26.8	subjects are animals. You'll get to know a beaver, a jellyfish, a flamingo, and more,
0:32.9	all sharing the trials and tribulations of what it's like to live elsewhere in the food chain.
0:37.9	Like everything is alive, it's funny, informative, and poignant. Here's a sample.
0:43.1	My name is Jerija, and you can see me okay? Okay, good. I'm a jellyfish, so that's why I always
0:50.9	check with people. We're celebrities in the natural world. You know, that's the thing about being
0:55.0	a butterfly that I don't think people understand is the pressure. This is my son Joseph, and we are
1:00.4	kangaroos. Joseph, we should say you are currently still in the pouch. Yeah, I live in the pouch still.
1:07.7	Okay, it's awesome. It's like nature's pocket. Humans have a phrase, eager beaver.
1:13.3	Uh-huh. Are you not a slur? I never know if that's a slur.
1:16.8	When I look at a peacock, I don't see the king of birds. I see a woefully inconvenient animal.
1:22.2	Imagine you snuggled up in a blanket, but that blanket was your mother, and it was just love.
1:38.4	Find the animals, and everything is alive, podcast feed now.
1:52.2	Film maker Vin Vendors premiered not one, but two films that can this year.
2:00.0	This is from the soundtrack of Enselm, a 3D cutting-edge film about German artist Enselm Kiefer.
2:06.1	The German nation has trouble dealing with an artist who wants to grapple with the past of Germany.
2:14.8	Vin Vendors worked on this film for two years using cameras mounted on drones and cutting-edge
2:20.9	technology. And then there's perfect days, a quiet, meditative film shot in Tokyo in 16 days
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