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*Please note this is not a live event.*

The film presents one of the most fascinating and popular abstract painters of our times. Sean Scully is shown painting a new picture, GREY WOLF. The process of painting is accompanied by Scully’s biographical tales and reflections on his complicated relationship with his parents, the disaster that was his childhood, his past as a member of an Irish street gang in London, and his overwhelming ambition to become an artist. Alongside the artist’s own reflections on his past we accompany him to the opening of a major retrospective in Barcelona and see him as a teacher with his students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. With rare openness, Scully shares his trauma and backlashes, the exciting creative process, and the closeness to failure. It is the portrait of a man who, against all obstacles, has followed his own artistic creed: “Art comes from need”.

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📖 Our tradition is to conclude each event with a poetry reading, so we encourage you to read poems from our current issue after watching the films.

Poetry from the May 2022 Issue →

🙏 A special thanks to Sean Scully and Sisyphos Film H.A.Guttner for making this virtual screening possible!

Credits: Screenplay by Werner Petermann, Hans Andreas Guttner; Cinematography by Björn Kurt, Hans Albrecht Lusznat; Editing by André Jean; Music by Lars Kurz; Sound by Monika Knirsch, Silvio Reichenbach, Chrisitiane Vogt; Production management by Jutta Malin; Production by Sisyphos Film