13.09.2025 | David (DE 2016, Sabine Herpich)

Personal Focus | SABINE HERPICH

DE 2016, D: Sabine Herpich, 81’, german OV, DCP

When David the shoemaker is not just working with leather, nails and wooden blocks, he devotes himself to his sculptures, which are scattered all over the workshop. Over the years, he has distanced himself more and more from natural models – up to today he has arrived at forms that no longer depict anything concrete, but only express themselves. Herpich’s intimate portrait of the artist, which like all her work progresses calmly without background music, never pushes meaning at any point. The camera observes calmly as David pursues his creative activities. Sometimes the taciturn man says something, but it is usually the forms and materials that speak.