He is not the first to make a film about the German artist Anselm Kiefer, who brings a poetic impulse out of the filmmakers who train their cameras on him. In her 2011 documentary “Over Your ...

German-born artist Anselm ... says of Kiefer. “People were not used to artists doing actions. There was no idea of installations or public performances. Joseph Beuys was one of the first.