Films by Alexey Kochetkov

Germany 2023, 60 min
by Angela Zumpe

When it comes to art, opinions differ. Value judgments are quickly made. A painter is seen as a great talent or as completely overrated – and his market value is accordingly. The value judgments of others often cause him to oscillate between the extremes. An artist's life offers room for both hype and average. A photographer and a filmmaker meet again after their orderly professional lives and take stock of their lives as artists. They interview their former fellow students, who studied at the W