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BERLINO - In occasione della 64a edizione del Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Berlino (fino al 16 febbraio 2014), il fotografo ufficiale della manifestazione Gerhard
Kassner presenta in una mostra («Berlinale Porträts») i suoi ritratti delle star. In seguito alla recente chiusura dell'Hotel Bogota, dove Kassner ha condiviso le sue fotografie del Festival con il pubblico per gli ultimi tre anni, è stato trovato un nuovo spazio espositivo, il bar berlinese di culto Kosmetiksalon Babette. La mostra, dopo l'apertura, verrà ampliata quotidianamente fino al 16 febbraio per includere nuovi ritratti di grande formato delle stelle internazionali presenti quest'anno a Berlino, accompagnati da aneddoti personali del fotografo.
Nei 12 anni in cui Gerhard Kassner è stato fotografo ritrattista per il Festival, ha catturato le immagini di innumerevoli registi e attori, emergenti e di fama mondiale: i suoi lavori testimoniano al tempo stesso la storia del cinema e quella della Berlinale. Nonostante le sedute dei ritratti durino tra i 3 e i 5 minuti (a volte anche meno), i risultati sono non solo impeccabili tecnicamente, ma trasmettono l'approccio sincero di Kassner verso i suoi modelli e la sua grande intuizione nel catturare l'essenza di chi è abituato a posare davanti alle telecamere, da Hugh Jackman a Jeff Bridges, da Anne Hathaway a Robert Pattinson.English translation....
BERLIN - On the occasion of 64th International Berlin Film Festival (until February 16, 2014), the official photographer of the event, Gerhard Kassner, presents in an exhibition ("Berlinale Porträts") his portraits of the stars. Following the recent closure of the Hotel Bogota, where Kassner has shared his photographs of the Festival with the public for the past three years, the new exhibition space will be the cult Berlin bar Kosmetiksalon Babette. The show, after the opening day, will be extended until february 16 to include new large portraits of international stars attending this year in Berlin, accompanied by personal anecdotes of the photographer.
In the 12 years in which Gerhard Kassner has been a portrait photographer for the Festival, he has captured the images of countless both emerging and worlwide famous directors and actors: his work witness as the same time the history of cinema and that of the Berlinale. Although the sessions of the portraits will last between 3 and 5 minutes (sometimes even less), the results are not just technically flawless, but they convey the sincere Kassner approach towards his models and his great insight in capturing the essence of people used to pose in front of the cameras, Hugh Jackman, Jeff Bridges, Anne Hathaway to Robert Pattinson.
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Holliday also told us about her friend Robert Pattinson. The pair have worked together on a number of projects over the years including The Bad Mother’s Handbook in 2007 and Bel Ami in 2012 in which they played lovers. ‘He’s lovely,’ she says. ‘I’ve known him since his pre-Twilight days when he was a normal person and it was still like, “ooh you’re playing Cedric Diggory (in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire)”. He’s managed to keep very level headed and normal. I don’t understand how. I can’t fathom the idea of living a life like he lives. On the set of Bel Ami in Budapest there would be hundreds of screaming girls there at 5am and they would still be cordoned off when we finished. He had to move hotels because there were so many people outside his. One day he was signing autographs on the way home from work at 6am after a night shoot. Bless him, that’s an extra level of hard.’