INT. OBSERVATION TOWER - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DEREK HELNWEIN (70), Director of the National Security Agency, stands over an advanced control panel.
Hardened by years of military experience, Helnwein never shows emotion.
Helnwein looks over CAPTAIN BATES’(30) shoulder, who is seated at a computer terminal.
HELNWEIN
Bates, are we operational yet?
BATES
Fully, sir.
HELNWEIN
Let them out.
BATES
Yes, sir. ...

Many disturbing images by German artist Gottfried Helnwein are reminiscent of the experiments in La Jetée. Learn more about his work. ...

Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor (of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums), deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 ...

While tracking down alligators, Mr. Penn discusses the state of affairs in Hollywood and Washington. ...

2 Documentary
2 Short

Genre: Documentary [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Helnwein (1984) (TV) [Actor]
Genre: Short [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Doppelherz (2003) (V) [Art Director] ...

The original painting can be seen at his exhibit "Modern Sleep" at Modernism in San Francisco through December 23rd. ...

Any chance of a book on Gottfried Helnwein? Incredible artist. Quite breath-taking. His website is a treasure trove of images and information. Maybe add it to your 'Related Links' section?
www.helnwein.com ...

Verder in de biblo een boek gekeken van de oostenrijkse kunstenaar Helnwein. Heel inspirerend. Mooie fotos zijn (in mijn optiek) toch meer een foto van durf. Ideeën genoeg, maar je moet ze durven uitvoeren.
De grenzen van het normale over en je begeven in de wereld van je fantasie, van je gedachten, je angsten, de contradicties... ...

-- and the exhibit's defacement by vandals shortly after it was unveiled.
Directed by Henning Lohner and featuring on-camera appearances by Helnwein collectors Sean Penn and Jason Lee, the documentary short is largely the product of the passion and persistence of Malibu producer Gisela Guttman. When she struggled to find a venue in Los Angeles willing to show Helnwein's large-scale installation, she decided to make a documentary instead.
The art installation, which revolves around a series of pictures of small children, was vandalized after its initial showing in Germany.
"The one thing I wanted to do is just be sure that people can see the entire installation, I just really wanted to bring it to Los Angeles, no matter how," Guttman said. "The power of those images really comes across on-screen, and that's what I wanted people to see and to think about." ...

NEWS: FILMS OF JEWISH INTEREST at AFI FEST 2004
Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximilian Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.
Screens as part of the German Shorts Program, Saturday November 13 at 9:00pm and Sunday November 14 at 1:00pm ...