On this page, I would like to use my film project ‘Spark of Creation’ to show how I work creatively myself and how I use this creativity as a catalyst for other people.
The topic of creativity has interested and fascinated me for a very long time: firstly, I love being creative myself and secondly, it is my heart's desire to support the full development of creativity in people and teams as a coach, trainer and consultant. With ‘The Spark of Creation’, I want to convey this exciting feeling of elation, the tingling in my head or stomach that arises when I am in creative mode, to the viewer. And I want to do this directly - not by explaining things, but by showing people who have just had a brilliant idea.
It is also important to me that viewers recognise that ‘being creative’ is present in people in the most diverse fields of activity.
Furthermore, I want to convey that there are many different settings/environments/atmospheres that creative people use or need in order for the spark to develop, emerge and ignite, or for them to prepare THE suitable long space for the brilliant idea within and around them.
What excites me about the ongoing project is also the challenge of successful realisation: Will I manage to get the spark across to the audience? How do I arrange the film setting and the contact with the creative people shown so that I really capture the creative momentum with the camera?
The most important thing for me is that viewers feel like being creative themselves during and after watching the film, that they try out something new and perhaps seek and find one or two approaches to creativity for themselves.
You will be there live and up close when creative people from a wide range of industries come up with good ideas and tap into their creative potential in their own special way.
- You will experience the environment that inspires these creatives to come up with good ideas
- You find out which atmosphere is particularly favourable for him/her: quiet, loud, lively, calm, dark, light, moving ...
Do you start tingling as you watch? Then your creative synapses are already in the starting blocks. Inspired by the examples, you'll be tempted to give it a try: Simply drive out and go for a walk where you've never been before, take a dip in the bathtub (you'll be in the best ‘genius-idea-finding company’ with Archimedes, for example, who discovered the principle of the laws of buoyancy there) or go to your favourite café, where the murmur is exactly the sound that makes you think of the idea you're looking for.
1. ‘monster painter’ / illustrator Mateo Dineen (originally from San Francisco) living in Berlin-Neukölln. Llink to external blog about + by him wowxwow.com/guest-blog/mateo-dineen-gb) His lovingly and excellently crafted monsters have been delighting adults and children alike since 2004. Start of shooting October 2022 - creation of ‘A Toast for friendship’, second shoot December 2022 - sketching in favourite café.
2. Käptn Peng (Robert Gwisdeck), musician (Käptn Peng und die Tentakel von Delphi), actor, author - to my ears a brilliantly eloquent all-round artist who dances around, drifts and rubs himself in the most exciting realms of consciousness according to the stimulation of my synapses. In preparation and enquiry - shooting expected to start in 2025.
3. Andre Philip Schneider, cannabis chef, author, traveller, food blogger: How, in which environment and during which activity does he come up with the ideas for an unusual menu order? Shooting is expected to start in summer 2024
4. More to follow: Craftsmen, dancers, writers, app developers ... maybe yourself? Or do you know someone who should be involved? I look forward to an e-mail or a phone call.
After four years of preparation, including a coronavirus break, the time had finally come in 2022: the film experiment began with the ‘monster painter’ Mateo Dineen.
Would it be possible to capture on film when the creative spark ignites? Would I possibly hinder or even prevent this moment with my camera?
Regardless of my reservations, I put a radio microphone on Mateo's shirt. I wanted him to simply express all his thoughts. He just starts and I film - for as long as it takes that day. It turned out to be seven hours.
Sketching in the café!
1.12.2022 - Shooting at Lieblings Café.
Topic: How does the very first idea for a picture come about when nothing is there beforehand? In the first scene in Mateo's cosy flat, full of boxes, drawers, pictures, drawings, paintings and what felt like 389 benevolently watching monsters, Mateo drew ideas from existing sketches - adding to and expanding them.
But now he needed a completely new idea! How and when does the spark appear from where?
While soft music plays in the background, the clatter of crockery and the voices of cappuccino-drinking guests can be heard and a dog sniffs the floor for anything interesting, Mateo sits hunched over his sketchpad with a cup of green tea. Today it's ‘Experimenting with black surfaces’.
Status 4.4.2024
There is a 29-minute cut version for Mateo, in which the creation of the painting ‘a toast to friendship’ can be seen. The cut version focussing on the ‘spark of creation’ is still in progress.
Are you creative yourself? Do you inspire others? Do you know someone who should definitely be in the film?
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