IMPRINTPRIVACY
Sep 2021
Film

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

Featuring Michael Madsen
Photos by Evgeny Revvo, Dave Burdette, and Nick Manley

While the first film seeks out and identifies creativity’s critical stimuli – spirituality, sex, money, fear, nourishment, and ambition – the film Why Are We (Not) Creative? follows Hermann Vaske and his sidekick Michael Madsen on their mission to unmask and identify idea killers. Together they analyze the oppositional forces that act as beta-blockers to creative energy – censorship, self-censorship, bureaucracy, compromise, distraction, and gatekeepers. It's an existential clash between creativity’s angels and demons. The assassins of creativity are many and lurk everywhere.

Creativity may be appear to be under threat, but it is often the threat that makes it thrive. A dialectical synthesis of opposites.

It’s about time we put creativity on top of the pyramid.

Featuring: Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons, Shirin Neshat, George R.R. Martin, Michael Madsen, Björk, David Bowie, Pussy Riot, T.C. Boyle, Isabella Rossellini, Willem Dafoe, Jim Jarmusch, Ken Loach, Terry Gilliam, Marianna Simnett, Diane Kruger, Julian Schnabel, Alexander Payne, Sean Penn, Trine Dyrholm, and John Cleese.

Festivals & Awards

Winner of Best Documentary Not Film Festival - 2022

Grand Prix Red Dot Award - 2022

Filmfest Munich - 2021

Warsaw International Film Festival -2021

Recognition Award Art Directors Club - 2019

PRAISE

"

Each and every minute is highly entertaining and profound.
epd Film

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A beautiful reminder to often question your own creativity.
BR, Capriccio

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Smart and highly enjoyable.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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