Wim Wenders

Introduction

Read Wim Wenders' article Interrogation in the syposium Why Believe in God? in Issue 55 here.

Current Projects
I am currently finishing a film project that was mainly shot in Italy last year. It’s called PALERMO SHOOTING and features German punk rocker Campino, the Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno and the great Dennis Hopper. I am also working on a new photography show, and my future film projects include a thriller in Tokyo entitled MISO SOUP and an adaptation of Walker Percy’s magnificent novel THE SECOND COMING, to be shot in the Carolinas. I am also teaching “Digital Cinema,” as a professor at the Hamburg Art School.

Biography
Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1945. One of the most influential figures of the New German Cinema in the Seventies, his films––among them The American Friend (1978), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987) or Buena Vista Social Club (1999)––have won numerous prestigious awards and international critical acclaim. A major survey of Wenders’ photography, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, has toured museums and art institutions worldwide since 2001. Wim Wenders has also published numerous books of essays and photographs. He lives in Los Angeles and Berlin with his wife, photographer Donata Wenders. He is President of the European Film Academy, and member of the order “Pour le Mérite”.