Osram, the double Oscar award winner and leading manufacturer of cinema light, supports a special exhibition at the Kinemathek
The camera icon Michael Ballhaus, the curator Michael Warnecke, and Hans-Joachim Schwabe, manager at Osram for the special lighting business sector and responsible for cinema and film set light, came together at 10th February for a podium discussion concerning the life and work of Martin Scorsese. An exhibition currently being held at the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz offers an insight into the work of the director, one of the most important of our times, and Martin Scorsese has for the first time also allowed the Deutsche Kinemathek access to his private archive. Osram is a main partner of the exhibition. The HMI lamps from the company's Berlin works are fitted into every second film projector worldwide, and without the Osram XBO lamp around half of all cinema screens would remain in the dark.
Special exhibition “Martin Scorsese” of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen (January 10 – May 12, 2013)
Filmhaus, Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Martin Scorsese, one of the most important directors of our time, has opened his archive to the Deutsche Kinemathek. The first international exhibition devoted to him divides his work into three chapters.
The first deals with the characters and the central setting of his films – the New York metropolis, especially “Little Italy,” the quarter of Italian immigrants, where Scorsese grew up. A model of the city shows locations where the director has staged his diverse stories.
The second chapter introduces Scorsese as a cineaste and connoisseur of film history, who actively supports the preservation of film heritage. He assembled a selection of historical film posters from his private collection for the exhibition.
The last chapter offers a view of Scorsese’s aesthetics and compositional techniques.
“Directors of Photography,” such as Michael Ballhaus and Robert Richardson, and also the editor Thelma Schoonmaker, have made a contribution to Scorsese’s decisive style. Working photos, camera diagrams, storyboards and cut lists clarify the construction of some key scenes from Scorsese’s oeuvre. His music films receive a section of their own.
Among the highlights of the exhibition are storyboards that Scorsese drew, original
costumes worn by Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, props from films like “Raging Bull“ (1980) and “Hugo Cabret“ (2011), numerous unpublished photographs, as well as costume and production designs.
The end of the exhibition takes shape through an installation of four large-scale projection screens, which allows the viewer to become immersed in Scorsese’s cosmos. It is completely in keeping with his credo: “I am the films that I make.”
