ROOM 666
Directed by Wim Wenders
Documentary –
1982 –
West Germany –
50′
Synopsis
“There was a general gloom at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The feeling that the end of cinema was inevitable was roaming everywhere. A ‘black hole’ was opening in film history so to say. So I thought I would do a survey among my colleagues about the future of cinema. I invited them all to the only available room in the whole town. Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez. The was a single camera in the room and the question was on the table. My colleagues only had to turn on the tape recorder and the camera when they were ready to give their solitary answers. Godard, Fassbinder, Spielberg, Antonioni, Herzog and other filmmakers gave response to the question: ‘Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?’"
Crew
Production – Gray City Inc. (New York)
Director – Wim Wenders
Producer – Chris Sievernich
Screenplay – Wim Wenders
Director of Photography – Agnès Godard
Editor – Chantal de Vismes
Sound – Jean-Paul Mugel
