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13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmA ghost-train ride through the former industrial region of Halle/Bitterfeld, a place trying to shed its reputation. Just beneath the newly polished surface, the recent past remains deposited. The subjective camera of the filmmakers, born in “Dark Germany,” stumbles in search of the right distance.
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An der Saale hellem Strande
19 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe film deals with the memory of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret, two Cuban contract workers in the GDR who died in Merseburg in 1979. During a visual tour of the city, acoustic fragments from Stasi files, letters and Facebook chats condense into a reflection on forms of remembrance and racist continuities.
BITING THE DUST
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe second chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines Christian ideas of the afterlife, asking which living beings are admitted to heaven—and which are shut out.
Block E, No. 5
13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThrough everyday gestures, sound, and spatial memory, the film reflects on displacement, home, and the affective residue of inhabiting places in transition.
Buck Fever
6 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmBUCK FEVER assembles a collage of amateur footage in which hunters capture the tension before an animal is shot and the release that follows, proudly posing for the camera beside their kill.
Der Morgen im Kiefernwald
27 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDER MORGEN IM KIEFERNWALD approaches a familiar phenomenon of our modern, ageing society: the loss of sight. Alongside the physical process of blindness, the film subtly evokes the geopolitical transformations that accompanied the end of the Cold War.
The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmIn 2016, Germany recorded more potential tornados than ever before. At the same time, weather tropes flooded screens and feeds: shit storms, data floods, refugee waves. The film reads images as documents, fictions and instruments of control — where fear, manipulation and prediction begin to merge.
Dunkelblau, wie ich mich fühle
20 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmAmid the concrete tower blocks, fifteen-year-old Gerda Müller confronts her loneliness alongside filmmaker Lan Mi Lê. Moving through a tangle of emotions, she explores questions of identity, family and friendship—and answers the dark blue of her life with song, performance and TikTok videos.
Fronteras Visibles
16 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDuring an artist residency in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Christian Diaz Orejarena questions the role of Western artists as cultural producers in economically marginalised contexts. Taking the form of a video diary, the film reflects on the circumstances in which the music video “Fronteras Visibles” was made.
In the middle of all things
10 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmWhat does the stone inside me stand for?
Inverse geometry
10 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmInverse Geometry unfolds a fictional story about the crossing of intimate boundaries. At the centre of its cinematic inquiry is the domestic interior: its furnishings, its objects, and the ways in which they are spatially inscribed within architecture.
LAKE OF FIRE
11 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe third chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy explores the fear of death, its close association with hell in Christian belief, and the way this worldview further inflames visions of a climate-driven “hell on Earth”.
