Between Film and Art

The Kunsthalle Emden and the Museum für Film und Fernsehen Berlin hosted an exhibition featuring a relatively unknown art form. Both museums presented outstanding cinematic storyboards, i.e. illustrated film scripts, characterized by an individual, artistic style. The exhibition displayed storyboards of films by 15 influential directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Akira Kurosawa. Most of the storyboard artists were trained graphic artists, illustrators and fine artists, whose drawings widely varied in terms of style and technique. The exhibition presented the storyboards alongside the original film sequences and other works by fine artists which were aesthetically or conceptually related to the storyboard. Not only did this collaborative exhibition allow the museums to present the topic of storyboards to a large audience, but also place these “general-purpose” illustrations in a context of fine art and other cultural and technical influences.

Curators: Katharina Henkel, Kristina Jaspers, Peter Mänz
Artists: Jean-Jacques Annaud (F), Georg Baselitz, Alexander Calder, Francis Ford Coppola (USA), Max Ernst, Victor Fleming (USA), Lucio Fontana (I), Alfred Hitchcock (GB/USA), Alex Katz (USA), Fritz Lang (A/USA), George Lucas (USA), Henri Michaux (BE), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Michael Powell (GB), Martin Scorsese (USA), Ridley Scott (USA), Steven Spielberg (USA), François Truffaut (F), Tom Tykwer, King Vidor (USA), Wim Wenders, Konrad Wolf u.a.

Venues and schedule:
Kunsthalle Emden, 16 April – 17 July 2011
Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Berlin, 18 August – 4 December 2011