„Finding Vivian Maier“: „documentary“ on the trail of a mysterious photo artist

10. March at 23.05 clock in ORF 2

Vienna (OTS) – Who is Vivian Maier? This question is at the heart of the documentary film „Finding Vivian Maier“ on Sunday, the 10. March 2019, search, in the framework of the „documentary“ to 23.05 Uhr in ORF 2 on the biographical trail of a highly talented and publicity-shy American photographer goes to the one that was in the bread professional housekeeper and nanny. The story of your life as well as your artistic work came only after her death in 2009 brought to light, as the filmmaker, John Maloof bought at a action a crate with a Negative. The images he liked, so he began searching for the photographer. The resulting Film by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel signed an unusual image of a gifted photo artist who documented secretly and passionately to the world around.

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Vivian Maier (1926-2009) lived as a Nanny in her native city of New York, as well as in Chicago. She was a headstrong Person who left the house and never without your camera. Together with the children for which they cared, always dutiful, she gladly accepted forays into those parts of the city, in the less Privileged lived. Many of your photographs show people in a random, seemingly unobserved, but extremely touching Moment.

In addition to the overwhelming number of artistic high-quality images, the film’s Director, John Maloof accidentally discovered in an auction of the estate of Vivian Maier, she left numerous films and newspaper clippings. Based on these documents, the Film „Finding Vivian Maier“ shows the unusual world of a woman who dedicated her life to a passion of photography, this is up to your death, however, with anyone shared.
„It is possible that we can have life to nothing about Vivian Maier and her photos would know if it had gone according to her,“ says co-Director Charlie Siskel: „you decided to have a clandestine existence, and hidden their art, as long as she lived.“

So it is with you now, as Kafka had intended, that his writings should be unread to be burned. Just that John Maloof and Charlie Siskel found their works, such as published and the Thousands of photos and movies as an opportunity to make this documentary about a secret artist. An exciting film, and was search of clues about the life of a woman, their environment and themselves in moving moments on your photos noted – but no traces behind. Therefore, the person Vivian Maier remains, until the end a mystery, which attempts, through Interviews with her former children and clients. This cinematic work-up of the estate of Vivian Maier to the most famous street photographer of the 20th century. Century.

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