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Title: BREATHING EARTH

Reference number: 9177

Date: 2012

Director: [d.  Thomas Riedelsheimer]

Sponsor: [  Creative Scotland, FFA, BKM, DFFF and Filmstiftung NRW]

Production company: [ Filmpunkt, Cologne in co-production with Skyline Productions, Edinburgh in cooperation with WDR/ARTE in association with John Caulkins, YLE and Piffl Medien]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 93.00 mins

Description: 75-year-old Japanese artist Susumu Shingu converses with nature through his sculptures. His lifelong dialogue with the wind and with water has given the world uniquely beautiful works of fluid, unpredictable and ever-changing movement. Susumu renders visible the opaque and the unseen and opens to us new perspectives. Thomas Riedelsheimer accompanies this quiet and unassuming man in pursuit of a dream, a quest to create an awareness of our planet, our breathing earth and our human values. Breathing Earth is a film about the wind, the philosophy of a wise person, about art and love and dreams. [synopsis from http://www.thomas-riedelsheimer.de/Breathing_Earth.html]

With English subtitles.

See also website: http://www.thomas-riedelsheimer.de/Breathing_Earth.html [last accessed 16/07/2020]

Credits: [sc. Thomas Riedelsheimer
d. ph. Thomas Riedelsheimer
ed. Thomas Riedelsheimer
p. Leslie Hills, Stefan Tolz
Commissioning ed. Sabine Rollberg
p. man. Katharina Jakobs
p. man. Scotland: Rohanna Law
ass. d. ph. Jürgen Kemmer, a.o.
sd. Shinya Kitamura, a.o.
m. Stefan Micus]