but 1st in our mini series about how office in various cities around the world coping up a moment today we are in rio de janeiro in brazil the infectious rhythms of the somber can normally be heard throughout the city but not now we met up with one of the most popular exponents the samba that. somebody is like inch while martine's is right in the midst of the 35 year old is an important up and coming sound of a recession every real danger narrow knows his hit song let me ask the matter if i sounded like. rio is quiet now while still plays his songs but somebody has gone silent nearly everywhere. there's no audience anymore and no one close no one you can have a dialogue with so that people can be a part of it and somebody lives from the masses from everyone taking part singing

and clapping together. but now everyone's at home in a quarantine that makes the barriers within brazilian society even greater the country's culture lives on and from the streets and it unites people. differences are great and the little bar down the street or the beach or to places where the lines between social classes almost completely dissolve the coroner has led to everyone keeping to themselves and a part of the mixture that's part of rio has gone missing. to their work the extreme economic inequality is why the quarantine hasn't really been effective in rio while rio's numerous cultural sites remain empty concert halls bars cinemas and theatres are still closed the narrow streets of the city's old quarter are filling up again with people who have to work because the government's emergency

carona funds aren't enough. and that also goes for people like holly and the heat their circus acrobats and since the coronavirus they've made intersections there big time a red traffic light rather than the opening of a curtain marks the start of their act while traffic is stopped they show off a bit of what they can do and hope for some spare change before the audience drives off again. but when i see the cars i imagine that there are a whole bunch of seats and i perform my show i smile at the audience even if i can't see their faces although i'm just at a traffic light i imagine it's a circus ring. i know. when all goes well a day of smiling and acrobatics earns them the equivalent of 10 euros but their street performance is also the training they need to stay in shape for once again performing at a circus one day when the pandemic is over. them but

this is probably germany's most famous film director paris texas where in a vista social club wings of desire just 3 of the 60 movies and documentaries he's made so far now to celebrate his 75th birthday there's a new documentary to be made about him which looks back at his illustrious career in the style of the venders movie. portrays him vendors in the style of the inventors movie the producers of a new documentary sent the legendary german director on the road to the locations of some of his best known films each shot could be event us out take. us. we started on this journey without knowing exactly what would happen we actually shot in the way vendors makes his movies. every vendor's film is an

adventure he starts shooting with actors and. camera not knowing where the story will end then does is fascinated by the idea of america the wild west the wide open spaces and the endless search for the american dream. what he does beautifully is put together the images with sound and light and music that are that once you see them they stay with you forever in the late 1990 s. venders reinvented himself as a documentary filmmaker it was a perfect fit to his improvisational style when a vista social club sparked a worldwide renaissance in cuban music. like. his tribute to dance choreographer pina bausch was groundbreaking shot in 3 d.

the film gave the audience the direct experience of live performance. salt of the earth a portrait of photographer sebastiano salgado was just as powerful venders received oscar nominations for all 3 documentaries. then dozen other passion is photography the director is a digital film pioneer but his photos are analog only his pictures are exhibited around the world. last year vendors turned his life's work into a monumental installation at the go home tully and paris. in wings of desire vendors masterpiece the sad angel gazes down on a divided berlin. his movies are like paintings but why are they modern classics i think because they are portray. painting with cellulite and

light. then vendors has made indelible images for the screen and inspired a new generation of filmmakers. and are joined now by our film guru mr scott rocks. and you've interviewed there's a number of times actually he wanted to be a pain to begin to be screwed yes that's true that was his sort of plan a but i think i mean if you look at his movies i mean he basically paints with with his camera i mean and it's interesting because his biggest inspiration as a painter was hopper and if you look at vendors film some of the scenes look like they were taken directly from whatever hopper painting and also like copper he was really inspired by sort of american iconic graffiti you know the big wide open spaces the empty highway that the neon lights in the cities but because vendors wasn't american isn't american he looked at these images from

a distance sort of saw a bit of an alienated way and and saw them and made them look seems strange and different and i think that's probably how twice inspired so many also american directors to take a look at these images that they think they know so well and see them with sort of new foreign eyes with the eyes of the inventor. he inspired many as you said but he was also a bit of a technical pioneer yeah that's quite interesting because most our house directors a lot of artists directors are sort of obsessive. fans or don't like to mess around with digital tools vendors is the exact opposite he was one of the 1st directors to really embrace digital technology to start shooting on handheld digital cameras i mean his is a documentary film that one of us the social club was the 1st full length film to be shot and edited entirely digitally and he's always kept pace with the new day digital technology and when 3 d. technology came in he was also one of the 1st directors to embrace it with his dance documentary pina and as i say a lot of artist directors are a bit scared. or

a bit shy of new technology but vendors has always said these are just new tools that we can use to tell our stories better or new and different ways you've seen most of his 60. do you have a personal favorite i had to pick out i think probably wings of desire which of course is this classic berlin set movie i think because that was probably the 1st film i ever saw where it wasn't a film about plot and story it was about ideas and emotion i never really seen that before sir changed the idea my idea of what film could do. but you know he's made so many amazing movies i think that's probably his his all time classic ok i should just mention that our producer tanya who's american says that she came to germany because of seeing wings of desire so what an influence scott was as always thanks very much. france has been a key figure of the. fifty's and is still collecting accolades to this day in 2017

he won the golden lion at the venice biennale his art is often live where bodies become part of a sculpture or installation his latest exhibition is in new nick where we filmed before the coronavirus pandemic. sense and her vital activates his artwork titled yellow sculpture for him art isn't something hanging on the wall or standing in a corner part is what happens when humans act what they do experience themselves that's art. here visitors to a retrospective of his work in munich activate this piece it requires 2 people to be at just the right distance from each other in order to see each other. in the late 1960 s. the german press dismissed biters art as childish his concept of turning time space

and even human bodies into sculpture was to open in free for them. titled left home at 16 rather than taking over the family's baked goods factory at 19 he created his 1st sculptural work titled attempt at being a sculpture. while studying at the decided after academy of art he experimented with pillows which his painter classmates used for pillow fights the future global art stars gear how to play star and sigma poker. the 1967 vita moved to new york with his wife and 2 young children it was a risk but it paid off 2 years later he had an exhibition at the art to have relevance not just in the present moment but beyond and he's achieved just that. exhibition in the house could still munich has now been. extended until november

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