Mono.kultur Issue 38, Gus Van Sant: In Limbo

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In this issue: Gus van Sant offers us a profoundly humane view of the world. It is a cinema defined by tenderness and slowness, preferring to observe rather than manipulate. A cinema of gaps and open endings, where mood reigns over meaning, where what we see and hear doesn’t quite add up, leaving us wondering.

In a suitably meandering interview with mono.kultur, Gus van Sant talked about his second chance as a director, inventing films on the spot and why Hollywood always wins.

Visually, the issue is heavily influenced by Gus van Sant’s quiet cinematic style, submitting itself to an endless horizon of American landscapes, leaving ample space to words, skies, and the occasional figure drifting into sight.

Interview by Anna Saulwick / Introduction by Kai von Rabenau / Film Stills by Gus van Sant / Design by Linda Riedl

Mono-kultur is a new interview magazine from Berlin, dealing with art and culture – or rather with the people who make them happen. In the foreground is music, film, literature. And image. And architecture. And media.... Mono kultur features one interview per issue, no more no less. Carefully selected and designed. No distractions, no gossip, no trendscouting. Instead Mono kultur offer opinions, experiences, lives.

English / 15 x 20 cm / 44 Pages

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