Walking on Water

2018, 100 minutes, Digital, NR
USA and Italy

Language: English

Director: Andrey Paounov

Cast: Christo

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Ten years after the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, artist Christo sets out to realize, The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Documented with uncensored access to Christo and his team, Walking on Water is a cinema verite look into Christo’s process, from inception to completion of his latest large-scale art installation. The film takes the viewer on an intimate journey into Christo’s world, unmediated by interviews, voice-overs or reenactments drawing the portrait of a man who deliberately places visceral experience over demagogy.

And yet, this intimate portrait of a man chasing a dream happens on the backdrop of the epic madness of it all — the complex dealings that merge between art and state politics, engineering challenges and logistical nightmares, and the sheer force of nature, captured through breathtaking aerial views and fly on the wall cameras. So, as we watch the dream unfold, we get to know the man chasing it — Christo.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

Locarno International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

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