New film offers insight into the creative process

'Never Look Away' is a new feature film inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter that sheds light on the creative process.
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Tom Schilling as the fictional artist Kurt Barnert in director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away.

Depicting the moment of creative inspiration has been a challenge for filmmakers since the first ribbon of film rattled its way past a camera lens. In numerous films, the artist’s studio has been mythologised as a tantalising mystery, a place of transgression, of wild imaginings and not infrequently, of sexual license and debauchery.

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