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In the 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans made a name for himself with photos of parties and club life. Today he is one of the most famous photographers in the world. Filmmaker Heiko Kalmbach accompanied Tillmans for four years. The result is a personal portrait featuring impromptu interviews and documentation of the immediate experience of Tillmans' work process. 'If One Thing Matters - a film about Wolfgang Tillmans' is a search for the core of an influential artist's practice.
Sep 18, 2009 Wide
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It's like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger's unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium.
It does little to convince the unconverted of Tillmans's [genius].
Heiko Kalmbachâ(TM)s video portrait of the German-born, London-based photographer frustrates because of the way it hovers between the esoteric and the quotidian.
A dull, meandering, lazy and poorly-edited documentary that fails to be captivating and insightful. [U]ltimately a missed opportunity.
The risk of such hands-off filmmaking is that the narrative itself can become mired in the mundane; there's little that happens here to shed light on the way this renowned shutterbug works or thinks.
Tillmans outlines a fascinating, if partial, philosophy of his work.
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