RISE AND SHINE CINEMA presents on 19. August 2021 at 21.30 clock in the outdoor cinema Frankfurt in the courtyard of the old police headquarters the inspiring documentary WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE? by Hermann Vaske as a Hesse premiere. The director, author and producer Hermann Vaske will be personally present at the premiere. A special guest at the premiere is also the activist Glacier Kwong from Hong Kong. She is also portrayed in the film.
WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE? will be released nationwide by RISE AND SHINE CINEMA on September 23, 2021.
The film is a sequel to Vaske's unique and entertaining documentary "Why Are We Creative?" and the second part of his creative trilogy in search of the secrets of creativity. While the first film (2018) tracks and identifies the stimuli of creativity - spirituality, sex, money, fear, nutrients, and ambition - WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE? Hermann Vaske and his sidekick, US actor Michael Madsen ("Once Upon A Time in Hollywood"), on their mission to expose the idea killers.
You can see the trailer HERE:
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Thursday, 19.08.21: 21.30, admission from 19.30 - Public event
To the program note: https://www.freiluftkinofrankfurt.de/filme/
The ticket link to the VVK: https://booking.cinetixx.de/frontend/#/show/2087180112/2413925913
About the film
What stops us from being creative? What gets in our way? Together, director Hermann Vaske and his sidekick, US actor Michael Madsen, identify the opposing forces that act as beta-blockers to creative energy - censorship, self-censorship, money, fear, bureaucracy, compromise, distraction and the gatekeepers - it's an existential battle between the angels and demons of creativity. Attackers abound, lurking everywhere, threatening creative work. And ironically, the reasons not to be creative are often the triggers that motivate us to be even more creative.
Hermann Vaske: "Today, among other things, the age of the Anthropocene threatens the survival of us all. But this existential threat also leads us to explore new and disruptive ideas if we are to avoid catastrophe. Creativity may be threatened. But it is often this very threat that allows it to flourish. A dialectical synthesis of opposites. It's time we put creativity at the top of the pyramid."
Once again, Hermann Vaske manages a tour de force ride through the who's who of the creative scene with insights that are as astonishing as they are inspiring. In WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE? he also meets people who are activists for freedom, democracy and climate change, such as Joshua Wong from Hong Kong or Luisa Neubauer ("Fridays for Future").
Among others, MARINA ABRAMOVIC, SHIRIN NESHAT, MICHAEL MADSEN, BJÖRK, DAVID BOWIE, PUSSY RIOT, T. C. BOYLE, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, WILLEM DAFOE, ANDREAS DRESEN, AI WEIWEI, DIANE KRUGER, JULIAN SCHNABEL, SEAN PENN, JIM JARMUSCH, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, DENNIS HOPPER.
The production of the film was supported by HessenFilm, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and DFFF. Distribution funding by HessenFilm.
More about the film can be found at: https://whyarewecreative.com
Source: RISE AND SHINE CINEMA