Part 1
Moonlight, Sea and Solitude
Moonlit shores, evening skies and the profound solitude through which Friedrich’s landscapes become inner worlds.
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Caspar David Friedrich
Five Journeys Through Silence and Light
63 paintings, five thematic films and more than two hours of original music by Bernd Klein.
The painter of the inner landscape
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is one of the defining painters of German Romanticism. Yet his pictures are never merely landscapes. Mist, moonlight, bare trees, shattered ice, distant mountains and ruined abbeys become images of human experience.
His famous figures seen from behind stand before overwhelming nature and look in the same direction as we do. Friedrich does not tell us what they feel. Instead, he opens a space in which wonder, solitude, hope and an intimation of infinity can meet.
The film series
Painting and music in dialogue
Each film follows a distinct theme. Slow camera movement enters selected details and then restores the view of the complete painting. Every new musical work begins with a new image. All compositions are by Bernd Klein.
Part 2
Liquid Dreams: Water, Mist and Ice
Water in all its forms: rivers, mist, clouds, ocean and ice, accompanied by the complete “Liquid Dreams Symphony.”
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Part 3
Ruins, Mountains and Sacred Places
Mountains like cathedrals, Gothic ruins and ancient stones as places of memory, sublimity and spiritual stillness.
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Part 4
Awakening, Nature and the Rhythm of Time
Spring, the hours of the day and recurring light: nature as an image of change, renewal and the rhythm of time.
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Part 5
Human Horizons: Journeys, Harbours and Life
Wanderers, ships and people before infinite horizons: a journey through departure, memory and the stages of life.
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Across the five films, each of the 63 selected paintings and every musical work appears exactly once. Together, they form more than a succession of images: a journey through sea and moonlight, water and ice, mountains and ruins, nature and time, and finally the human being before an open horizon.