Super Art Market

Film Partner: Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art

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The works of contemporary artists commanded astronomical prices between 2002 and 2008. Some art works cost as much as a Boeing. The real players in the art boom weren't the investors or even the artists themselves, but the gallery owners and art dealers. They created 'their' artists and decided who would get to buy their work. Super Art Market features the gallery owners Leo König from New York, Lorenz Helbling from Shanghai, Judy Lybke from Berlin, Lora Bartlett from London and Michai Pop from Cluj, Romania. They discuss how they run their business and make millions. This is a film about art in a consumerist society.

Credits

Original Title: Super Art Market
Language: Original version with English subtitles, Original version with German subtitles
Country of Origin: Germany
Year : 2009
Duration: 89 Min.
color
Director: Zoran Solomun
Script: Zoran Solomun
Camera: Lorenz Haarmann, Ralf Schlotter
Editing: Janina Herhoffer
Sound: Christoph Waury, Huang Xun
Sound Mix: Ansgar Frerich/BASISberlin
Music: Milimir Draškovic/Studio Music Design
Starring/Featuring: Leo König, Gerd Harry Lybke, Lorenz Helbling, Mihai Pop, Laura Bartlett, Vito Schnabel, Tony Matelli, Kelli Williams, Martin Eder, Adrian Ghenie, Zhou Tiehai, Becky Beasley, Julian Schnabel
Production: OHNE GEPÄCK Berlin, ZDF; arte, Zoran Solomun, Dagmar Fromme
Festivals: 2010: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana (USA)
supported by: Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Since the Arsenal’s establishment in 1963 (known from that time until 2008 as Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek) films from the Forum Section of the Berlin Film Festival as well as through the Arsenal Kino’s decades of cinema exhibition have found their way into our collection... ...more