Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

The story

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert “Bob” Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Why does merciless repetition change our understanding of something? Together with Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe or Marina Abramović we trace back our own experience of Bob’s art. Is it true what Philipp Glass the collaborator of the milestone piece “Einstein on the Beach” laughingly and with apparent pleasure exclaims “what does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything!”?

Cast

R Robert WilsonSelf W Willem DafoeSelf M Marina AbramovićSelf C Christian FriedelSelf T Tom WaitsSelf P Philip GlassSelf S Stefan KurtSelf C Christopher NellSelf S Sabin TambreaSelf T Traute HoessSelf W William S. BurroughsSelf (archive footage)