Thomas Struth

Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten. This 46-minute film features Mehretu’s expansive painting Congress (2003) and Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021), the acclaimed album from Floating Points and jazz titan Pharoah Sanders featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Filmed on location at The Broad in Los Angeles.

Thomas Struth counts as one of the most significant German artists since the 1990s. With analytical precision and clarity, he composes landscapes that resemble perfectly organised stagings. In this documentary, which was produced over a period of ten years, Struth talks about nearly every group of works and allows a deep inside view into his understanding of the media and the way he works.