Overview
- From Inside Out, presented in 3D at the Venice Film Festival, is a feature-length portrait of Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor built from 14 years of filming, interviews and archive material.
- Wenders follows Zumthor’s slow, hands-on process and treats construction as part of design, using the camera to show how materials, light and site shape finished buildings.
- The documentary places special weight on the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, tracking the project as it moved from plan into active construction and into Zumthor’s body of work.
- Brad Pitt, who publicly defended Zumthor’s LACMA project before Los Angeles officials, appears as an executive producer and is shown as an active supporter of the building campaign.
- Critics note the film can be methodical and occasionally long-winded but conclude Wenders’ 3D approach pays off in later sections that convey the sensory power of Zumthor’s spaces.