Walking on Water
Ten years after the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers – a project they conceived together many years before. Walking on Water is a cinema vérité look into Christo’s process, from inception to completion of his latest large-scale art installation. The film takes the viewer on an intimate journey into Christo’s world, unmediated by interviews, voice overs or reenactments, while drawing the portrait of a man who deliberately places visceral experience over demagogy. Yet, this intimate portrait of a man chasing a dream happens on the backdrop of the epic madness of it all: the complex dealings that merge between art and state politics, engineering challenges, logistical nightmares, and the sheer force of nature. As we watch the dream unfold, we get to know the man chasing it – Christo.
Supported by the US Embassy in Egypt