Tom Schilling as the fictional artist Kurt Barnert in director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away.
Depicting the moment of creative inspiration has been a challenge for filmmakers since the first ribbon of film rattled its way past a camera lens. In numerous films, the artist’s studio has been mythologised as a tantalising mystery, a place of transgression, of wild imaginings and not infrequently, of sexual license and debauchery.
