The Image Inside -
A Portrait of the Painter
Gerda Lepke

A film by Wolfgang H. Scholz

with
Ingo Schulze,
Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger
Gerhard Wolf


A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a world of observation and being observed.

A documentary about the kafkaeske life enclosed in her studio space and her mother’s small house and garden. With an insite of the difficulties of a female painter who grew up in the time of Eastern Germany.

A meeting and friendship that began in the mid eighties,
led me into the ”Garden of the painter”. This gave me the
closeness and made it possible for me to realize a portrait of
a painter in her own words, as she speaks to herself. I received,
in each phase of the film’s production, surprise new encounters
with the work and life of the artist  Gerda Lepke.
Wolfgang H. Scholz 2008

Direction: Wolfgang H. Scholz
DoP: Jürgen Rehberg
Edition: Richard Krause
Music Composer: Alejandro Velasco
Soundmix: Manfred Mammitzsch
Photography: Wolfgang H. Scholz

A production of Sic! Film GmbH

Supported by the Cultural Foundation Saxony

Festivals:
International Documentary Film Festival, Leipzig 2009
International Film Festival Houston, USA 2010

Platinum Remi Award
International Film Festival Houston, USA 2010