2024-12-22T02:13:24-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/138492312/wim-wenders-discusses-the-role-of-architecture-and-landscape-in-his-films Julia Ingalls 2015-10-08T14:06:00-04:00 >2015-10-23T23:04:03-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wa/waieusmkd9x41zm6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>I slowly became more and more of a storyteller and less and less of a painter until I embraced film-making as the only profession that really included everything I liked. It was photography and architecture, music and writing and acting&mdash;everything I liked together into one package that was called &ldquo;film-making&rdquo;.</p></em><br /><br /><p>In an interview with The Economist, film director <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/39581395/wim-wenders-turns-his-hand-to-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wim Wenders</a> speaks about the relationship of landscape and architecture in his work, and how focusing on a scene absent of anyone often amplifies the stories of everyone.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/q3/q356zde7z25r364q.jpg"></p><p>"I try to make places tell their stories about us," he says. Indeed: from "Paris, Texas" to "<a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/110346994/material-witness-5-cultural-gerrymandering" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wings of Desire</a>" to "Pina," Wenders' filmmaking agilely pairs emotional and physical terrain.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/cy/cywsvd8ic9v7p04v.jpg"></p>