Au fil d’une rencontre pendant les répétitions d’une pièce du dramaturge américain, ce documentaire ausculte sa vision de la mise en scène. Un portrait fascinant d’un artiste hors du commun.
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert “Bob” Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Why does merciless repetition change our understanding of something? Together with Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe or Marina Abramović we trace back our own experience of Bob’s art. Is it true what Philipp Glass the collaborator of the milestone piece “Einstein on the Beach” laughingly and with apparent pleasure exclaims “what does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything!”?
Robert Wilson zählt zu den bedeutendsten Theatermachern der Welt. Sein Markenzeichen: magische Bilder von großer Schönheit, die kaum zu deuten, aber doch zugänglich sind.
