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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  August 23, 2019 1:45am-2:01am CEST

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well prospects. and gamers delight here in germany at the moment with the world's biggest computer games event games call. for jazz fans the long white is what is being hailed as the definitive documentary about legendary trumpeter miles davis hit cinemas this week the director stanley nelson 1st started this project over 15 years ago most importantly with the permission of miles davis family and sony music but it was shelved until 2 years ago now the story of one of the most influential and brilliant musicians in the world of jazz can be told in birth of the cool. more than any other jazz artist miles davis had the qualities of a rock star when he was a boy his father gave him a trumpet the rest is history. has always been like a curse with me it's the 1st thing in my life go to bed thinking about it and wake
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up thinking about. it for. that passion made him a legend. miles started very early he looked at things differently he saw things differently without a doubt the most unique person i've ever known. the new film miles davis birth of the cool tells davis his story from beginning to end director stanley nelson unpacks the enigmatic troubled artist's highs and lows same drug abuse domestic violence and of course music the late miles davis lends his voice to and then one of the things that is a highlight of this film is that miles is the narrator we used clips from miles there's all biographies so miles you kind of hear miles a story a few miles the words i think that's unique in a different perspective you know. into what made him tick in the early one what drove his music aside from his voice the documentary features never before seen santa never before heard music made available by the artist friends and sony music
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. what emerges is the portrait of a musical genius. he was tormented by the racism and visions that surrounded him. refused to let cliches define them. a lot of the old guys who went to school it would make you play like you were white if you learned something from theory you would lose the feeling in your play i wanted to see what was going on in all of music he put his whole right into the microphone changed homeworld and yes right there. he comes up with this style that is truly reflective of who he is he's angry antisocial but then he starts playing people i. gave us his personal life was to mulcher means his professional life always innovative if anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change she's. lost my sense of
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discipline and started 34 i knew i had a heroin addict. and yet he maintained a cult of personality around him i started to the very end. and. the elevator opened area was you know just like in the movie when you meet the vampire and you know you're going to die and you don't care. all i ever wanted to do with communicate what i felt through. the documentary hits cinemas this friday. great stuff belgium is celebrating the life and times of one of its most famous sons the great man assaults artist pizza boy brougham brawl ugle. it's the 450th anniversary of his death in 1569 that's being honored because no one is quite sure when he was born the whole
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of brussels is celebrating the man who painted every day scenes of ordinary life when most else's were painting religious pictures or portraits. like a 1000000 puzzle pieces the paintings 2 of peter brew hopi elder are all about details with a multitude of motifs and characters with live stories and secrets of their own beyond brutal is the new exhibition at belgium's royal museum of fine arts here computer animations bring the artist's peasant studies to life as minute details are blown up taking visitors back to the 16th century when europe was engulfed in religious wars. in the arctic even in the backgrounds of his paintings he lends detail to his figure is in composing his pictures he is able to leave the view as i saw the instance by painting some figures with their backs to the viewer and then on a full scale a few minutes in other navigation skills at san bruno painted the seasons
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he was the 1st who dared to page landscapes with snow. the originals are also here in brussels much smaller and very fragile. painted them more than 450 years ago on thin oak panels the scenes are bursting with life. life that the master observed here in brussels quarter with the artist lived got married worked and died. now a collective of street artists has brought him back to moscow with 14 murals featuring contemporary reinterpretations of his most famous works was. for me it was all about this theme of winter hunters in the snow that was the composition of the story so i just transformed the hunting dogs into a sort of hybrid animals part dog part rather. the murals
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lead visitors on a tour of the neighborhood and works because if i put the exodus from egypt into a contemporary context since we're talking about migration so much. migration doesn't know time were borders and just how brutal like to add little stories i've got mary offering her donkey a virtual carrier because it's. brutal outdoors and for free 450 years after his death he still inspires it. and it really fits brussels where people are always looking for murals of comic figures these are surprising because they aren't comics but that's really neat. brutal influence many other artists as well including his sons and grandsons he founded an artistic dynasty but none of his descendants painted details so 2 playfully so masterfully as peter the elder. games calm is an annual trade
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pfaff a computer and video games held in cologne here in germany this year up 240-0000 fusion are expected to visit making it the biggest game of dent in the world it is a huge business loss in america alone the business was worth $44000000000.00 making it an even bigger industry than hollywood i'll be talking to my colleague mike accrued about life his trends but 1st a look at games called 2019. monsters and elves posed peacefully side by side and that means games cars started in cologne with international cost players developers and fans from all over the world. to get us was on the special this here is that we've once again expanded games column is to almost $220000.00 square metres of exhibition space and so far we have a total of $700.00 exhibitors from over 50 countries here too and that simply shows
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the games com has becomes leak local event for the computer games industry worldwide that's what it was. this year's theme is together we are games more than ever the focus is on the players because gamers don't just play games they also influence game development the community is absolutely everything we will recall pilot game for one person if they got a problem because ultimately they are our audience they are all that really matters so yes the community is incredibly important. and that's particularly true of indie games the community also supports small game developers and has even made new games possible by financing. see at the free for us throughout our community push for it with a crowd funding and that helped us visioning a few ideas and also bring id to write that. it's not just the indie games that are more artistic and unusual also the triple a games the blockbusters of the gaming
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industry they already have big. budgets but even more money is now being content a total of $2400000000.00 people are gaming around the world those who don't have powerful hardware to play particularly demanding games can play games stored in the cloud. cloud gaming means i can play all the best of the latest games and top quality on virtually any device because you don't have to download it on everything takes place in the cloud that's an exciting development you can see it games coming. in cologne every gamers heart is beating faster this week boredom certainly isn't the name of the game. the author of that report krueger's with me now so this was the big deal about cloud gaming well it gives you a play a more opportunities and it works like the streaming services we already know like netflix as long as you have a stable internet connection but this is the future and there's no need anymore to
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instill upgrade to the games and here as you can see you can imagine the amount of data that will be transmitted for some of the games.

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