Le Mans
Synopsis
An experimental film about the ambiguous sensation of fear and elation experienced during the loneliness of a night race. Original footages of the „24 Hours of Le Mans“ are associated with pictures of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic airplane „The Spirit of St. Louis“ and quotations by Antoine Saint-Exupéry and Bertolt Brecht.
Length: 9:30 min.
Format: 16 mm
Colour + black & white
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: optical mono
Language: English/French/German
Country/ Year
Germany/ France 2003
Production
Andreas Wutz
Co-Production
Cuxhavener Kunstverein
Support
Government of Lüneburg
Lottery Fund Lower Saxony
Otto Constien Foundation
LfA Funding Bank of Bavaria
Crew
Director: Andreas Wutz
Script, photography, editing, animation, sounddesign: Andreas Wutz
Distribution
see production
Mediatheque
University of California San Diego
Exhibition catalogue
Le Mans
by Andreas Wutz
Published by Cuxhavener Kunstverein, 2003. Film stills, photo series, flip book cinema.
Essays (in German) by Heike Ander and Michael Schultze
Exhibition catalogue (excerpt)
Light Is a Kind of Rhythm
by Alena Williams
Interview (in English) with Andreas Wutz on his film Le Mans. Published by merz solitude, Stuttgart 2009