CLOSE-UP - HAUTNAH. Die Filmkostüme von Barbara Baum

Hautnah. Die Filmkostüme von Barbara Baum

Hautnah. Die Filmkostüme von Barbara Baum

Hautnah. Die Filmkostüme von Barbara Baum

Barbara Baum is one of the most renowned costume designers in Germany. She has been designing costumes for international and national productions for almost 50 years. She has worked particularly closely with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, among others for THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (FRG 1978), LILI MARLEEN (FRG 1980), LOLA (FRG 1981) and QUERELLE (FRG 1982). She also designed costumes for opulent TV films such as CATHERINE THE GREAT (DE/US 1994-96) or BUDDENBROOKS (DE 2007/08). In her many years of creative work, Baum has dressed stars such as Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeanne Moreau and Burt Lancaster. She has received numerous national and international awards for her work, most recently the “Honorary Lola” at the German Film Awards in 2015.

Barbara Baum has an extraordinary sense for fabrics. They are not only her working material, but also a source of inspiration.

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„I always think in terms of fabrics. I even get goose bumps over exceptional fabrics! For me, the decision to use this or that very specific fabric is usually already half the costume.” (Barbara Baum)

THE EXHIBITION

A replica of her studio forms the middle of the exhibition space. This is where Barbara Baum talks about her profession. Materials from her archive, such as costume plots, costume lists, and much more testify to her first intense examination of screenplays. Concrete ideas grow out of this that are materialized and ultimately integrated into the image on film. Budget plans, invoices, daily call sheets, and purchasing lists bear witness to the requirements of the profession. Minutes of meetings, correspondence, fitting and continuity photographs testify to how costume design is embedded in the other cinematic crafts.

More than 50 original film costumes – the results of artistic ingenuity, the art of tailoring, and not least careful calculation and planning – have been installed in the studio space.

Because the original costumes may not be touched for reasons of conservation, an area has been set up where visitors can feel 50 samples of high-quality fabrics that were used in the making of these.

CLOSE-UP is also a hands-on exhibition with a tactile element that affords blind and visually impaired individuals a multisensory experience. Costume designs are translated into tactile relief prints. Form and cut, the fall of the folds, or details such as sequins can be felt with one’s fingertips. Barbara Baum’s notes for the dressmakers are presented on legends in braille. Original fabric swatches convey the haptic quality of the material used. The tactile information is also accompanied by an audio description. The space and costumes are described in great detail, allowing images to unfold in the mind’s eye. Innovative digital canvases behind the original costumes add an additional sensory element. They demonstrate the symbiosis between the actor and the film costume as a moving image. The montage clips are collages and focus solely on the costume.

An audioguide with audiodescription enables the visitors, in particular those who are visually impaired or blind, to have the contents of the exhibition read to them as an audio description on their own smartphone. audioskript developed the audiodescription together with blind and seeing authors.
You can listen and experience it here in our virtual exhibition tour.

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ACCESSIBILITY & AUDIOGUIDE

The audiodescription navigated the visitors through the exhibition. For guests using white canes, the costume stages were equipped with a guidance system. Wooden strips on the floor indicated the individual stations of aur audiowalk (QR code stations for an indivual selection ) and the tactile stations.

Use our audioguide comfortably from wherever you like by downloading the app digiWalk to your phone. We’ll show you how!

HAUTNAH. Die Filmkostüme von Barbara Baum

Swipe or click through this section to get information about our audioguide with audiodescription of all of the exhibition content – anytime, anywhere you like! It is a walk with 21 indivual stations that you can swipe or click through. In the exhibition space, QR code pillars direct you to the individual stations. Just scan the QR code with the DigiWalk app!

Get the audioguide app "DigiWalk"

For our audio guide with audio description you need the free app DigiWalk (www.digiwalk.de). You can download it e.g. from Google Play or the App Store

A registration is not necessary.
You can download and use the app before you visit our museum and the exhibition, e.g. conveniently from your home! In the museum, we have free WiFi.

Open the audioguide

Once the app has been installed, there are several ways to access our audio guide (“Walk)HAUTNAH/CLOSE-UP.

1. Open the app and click on the QR code icon. A QR code scanner will open. Scan this QR code DigiWalk with the app to open the audioguide HAUTNAH/CLOSE-UP

Startseite der App DigiWalk

Landing page of DigiWalk

QR-Code des Audioguides

QR Code of the walk “HAUTNAH/CLOSE-UP”

2. Or open the app DigiWalk, select “Find Walk” (“Walk suchen”) and type in HAUTNAH. Our audio guide will be displayed for you to select.

3. If you allow location services, our audio guide will also be displayed on a map under “Walks in the vicinity” (“Walks in der Nähe”).

4. Start the audio guide with the green checkmark.

Use the audioguide

Start audioguide with the green checkmark

Start audioguide with the green checkmark

All stations of the audioguide

All stations of the audioguide

Individual station

Individual station. Tap the earphones symbol for the audio file. Tap on the button on the upper left corner to open the menu.

Menü

Menue with language selection (tap on the flags)

EXHIBITION TOUR

CLOSE-UP will be on display in 2020 at the Deutschen Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen in Berlin.

For further information please see here https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/besuch/ausstellungen/hautnah-die-filmkostueme-von-barbara-baum

Contact

Curator Hans-Peter Reichmann
E-Mail: reichmann@dff.film Tel. +49 (0)69 961 220 -302

Curator Isabelle Bastian
E-Mail: bastian@dff.film Tel. +49 (0)69 961 220 -474

Förderer HAUTNAH