Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Christoph Schlingensief, Terry Gilliam, Abel Ferrara, Wim Wenders, David Bowie, Björk, Iggy Pop, Blixa Bargeld, Dieter Meier, Nick Cave, Bono, Umberto Eco, Sputniko! Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, David Hockney, Lu Yang, Jonathan Meese, Georg Baselitz, Julian Schnabel, Tobias Rehberger, Neo Rauch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Viktoria Modesta, Michael Madsen, Lilith Stangenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Cate Blanchette, Angelina Jolie, Isabella Rossellini, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, Sean Penn, Stephen Hawking, Wolf Singer, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Luisa Neubauer, Pussy Piot, Slavoj Zizek, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.
All contributors have created an artifact
for the project, some very personal, others bizarre.
World Creativity Project
The World Creativity Project – What makes you creative presents a “very best of” of Hermann Vaske’s journeys into creativity of 40 years. The highlights of his Creativity series of 4 feature length films: Why Are We Creative, Why Are We Not Creative, Can Creativity Save the World and Creativo Paradiso: A Creative Renaissance. Why Are We Creative premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the presence of renowned artist Marina Abramovic who came to Venice to support the project.
The films were shown in almost every country in the world and at other prestigious film festivals like Festival de Cannes, Palm Springs International Film Festival and Raindance Film Festival in London, Filmfest Munich, Shanghai International Film Festival and Warsaw International Film Festival.
