series about how artists in various cities around the world coping a moment today we are in rio de janeiro in brazil the infectious rhythms of the samba come normally be heard throughout the city but not now we met up with one of the most popular exponents of the samba that. somebody is life into well martine's is right in the midst of it the 35 year old is an important up and coming sound of musician everything rio de janeiro lose his hit song. by saturday. 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 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. from the 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. 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 corona funds aren't enough and that also goes for people my. cali 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. but. when all goes well a day of smiling and acrobatics earns them the equivalent of 10 euro 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. vendors is probably germany's most famous film director paris texas but when

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 being made about him which looks back at his illustrious career in the style of the vendors movie. the portrait and 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 a vendor out take. the ones we started on this journey without knowing exactly what would happen when we actually shot in the way venders makes his movies. every vendor's film is an adventure he starts shooting with actors and a camera not knowing where the. story will land vendors is fascinated by the idea

of america the wild west the wide open spaces and the endless search for the american dream. when it 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. where. 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. 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 polly 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 porches and painting with cellulite in light of inventors has made india. images for the screen and inspired

a new generation of filmmakers. and are joined now by film guru mr scott rocks. and you've interviewed vendors a number of times actually he wanted to be a painter beginning of his crude 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 benders film some of the scenes look like they were taken directly from what i would hope for a painting and also like copper he was really inspired by sort of american iconic graffiti you know the big wide open spaces the the the empty highway the 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 a bit of an alienated way and and saw them and made them look seem strange and

different and i think that's probably how why it's 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 wasn't it yeah that's quite interesting because most art house directors are a lot of artist 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 of 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 i mean 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 technique. 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 see most of his sixty's. do you have a personal favorite i had to pick out i think probably wings of desire which of course is classic berlin set a 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 so change 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 and i should just mention that our producer tanya who's american says that she came to germany because of seeing wings of desire and influence. as always thanks very much . france vides has been a key figure of the post-war scene society 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 munich where we filmed before the coronavirus pandemic or gap. sense and heard later activates his artwork titled yellow sculpture for him art isn't something hanging on the wall or standing in a corner art 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 and 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 the easter and sick my poker. was. a 967 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 museum of modern art. in this artwork the sculpture becomes a plinth and people sculpture as they move towards each other step by step that asks how close. if you want to be and who do i want to be why does art is deeply human always about the individual and the rest of society about inside and outside

borders and community he says i have to have a deep love for people and trust. 2 are born i was born in 1939 at a very young age i was aware very early on that i experience people's content sometimes murderous and i've seen things i'd rather not talk about right now and i think that really had a strong influence on me in the way my work involves people and in the way i don't have shapes constructed for permanence because i've seen how everything can be destroyed in one fell swoop because he has a list with. his art represents the greatest possible freedom reconsidering things deciding freely then acting like it says i always wanted my art to have relevance not just in the present moment but beyond that and he's achieved just that. exhibition in the house there could still

munich has now been extended until november more arts and culture stories on our facebook page and on twitter culture but that's all for this edition thanks very much for watching to join us tomorrow if you can at the same time.

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