The Image Inside – A Portrait of the Painter Gerda Lepke

A film about the process of painting, thinking and the inclusion of the artist in his world of observation and being observed.

A film by Wolfgang H Scholz

In this portrait, Gerda Lepke talks for the first time about her life story and her difficult path to becoming an accepted artist, her development into a person who is particularly committed to women in the art scene.

She looks back at the artistic landscape during the GDR era and its confrontation with the propagated socialist art during this time. Gerda Lepke offers her current work and projects for the coming years. We experience her in her studio and home in Gera and Dresden, live with her the current work process and the relationships and encounters with her friends and fellow artists.

An encounter and friendship that began in the mid-80s took me to the „Garden of a Painter“. So I was able to realize a project that, through personal closeness, led to a portrait of a painter in a soliloquy. In every phase of the production of this film - for me there were surprisingly new encounters with the work and life of the artist Gerda Lepke.

Wolfgang H Scholz 2008

Genre:             cinema documentary, portrait

Length:            53:20 min.

Format:           1.85:1, HDCAM, Color

Sound:            Stereo and Dolby 5.1

Language:       German

Year:               2009

Director:          Wolfgang H Scholz

Camera:          Jürgen Rehberg

Sound:            Werner Philipp

Editing:            Richard Krause

Sound mixing: Manfred Mammitsch

Musk:             Alejandro Velasco

Photography: Wolfgang H Scholz

Production:     Sic! Film GmbH

Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Saxon Free State

Contributors:          Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger

                               Kerstin Franke-Gneuss

                               Ingo Schulze

                               Gerhard Wolf

Screenings:

Angermuseum, Erfurt, 2009

Filmclub Coma, Gera, 2009

Kino Ost, Dresden, 2009

Stadtmuseum Dresden, 2009

Internationales Filmfestival Leipzig Doc Film Market, 2009

Documentary Campus, Neuseeland, 2010

International Film Festival Houston, USA 2010

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Moritzburg, 2016

Culture Unplugged Festival, Neuseeland, 2016

Filmoteca UNAM, Mexiko, 2016

Museum Chopo, Mexiko, 2017

Cinema release:         Dresden, Metropolis, 2009

Prize:   Platinum Remi Award 2010, International World Film Festival Houston, USA

© copyright 2009, Sic! Film Productions GmbH, Wolfgang H Scholz