In 2006, Australian director Shaun Wilson visited the Romanesque-Gothic St. Michael’s church in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, encountering 51 medieval religious paintings. After painstakingly copying each artwork into a small travel notebook, Shaun reconstructed each painting through video using a series of actors and friends in locations of historical significance. Filmed between 2006-2013 in Germany, Australia and the UK, those images now form a unique blend of artistic beauty and cinematic stillness. 51 paintings gives insight into the aesthetic world of slow cinema, and is the first in a pentalogy of slow cinema films by the filmmaker.
