Never Look Away: a captivating screenplay exploring the connection between trauma and art

Abstract

It is no hindrance that it is in German with English subtitles. It is a recent historic account, borrowing from the biography of otherwise very private German contemporary abstract artist Gerhard Richter going back to Germany's Nazi regime, his traumatic childhood, his East German and then West German personal life, and his artistic career, offering various salient aspects from the 20th century German history with its beauty and its terrors, euthanasia, genocide, politics, physical health medicine, and psychiatry (ABC News 1). The themes of acute and chronic, personal and collective, trauma is visited from diverse angles. Specifically, various levels of trauma present in the lives of Barnet (Richter) family, particularly Kurt Barnet (Gerhard Richter) played by Tom Schilling 5. Bulter S. 'Art for a new understanding': an interview with Valerie Keenan, Manager of Girringun aboriginal art centre.