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KLANGBAD: AVANTGARDEA IN THE MEADOWS<br />
by Dietmar Post <strong>and</strong> Lucia Palacios MUSIC | ART | CULTURE | AVANTGARDE<br />
There are two kinds <strong>of</strong> rock festivals: the usual <strong>and</strong> the adventurous<br />
ones. Former present music that everyone knows. Others<br />
are more experimental <strong>and</strong> put their ear into boundary zones.<br />
The Klangbad Festival, curated by Faust's Jochen Irmler, belongs<br />
to the latter. Since 2004 the picturesque village <strong>of</strong> Scheer invites<br />
to an innovative musical journey crossing various genres.<br />
In today's pr<strong>of</strong>it-oriented event area it is hard to find anything<br />
comparable. The festival is small but growing constantly.<br />
Despite <strong>this</strong> fact, it ab<strong>and</strong>ons commercial sponsoring funds unlike normal open air festivals.<br />
Filmmakers Post <strong>and</strong> Palacios portrait the festival in the style <strong>of</strong> other great festival films, such as,<br />
Monterey Pop. Featuring Circle, Nista Nije Nista, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, D.Padden, J. Koether,<br />
Minit.<br />
87min | DVD | DVCAM | color | German version with English or Spanish subtitles available<br />
Berlin 2007. The “Palast der Republik” (Palace <strong>of</strong> the Republic)<br />
is finally being demolished. This architecturally remarkable<br />
structure <strong>of</strong> the 1970‘s, headquarters <strong>of</strong> the former leaders <strong>of</strong><br />
the GDR, is banished from Berlin‘s cityscape. Not just famous<br />
for its futuristic design, the l<strong>and</strong>mark <strong>of</strong> a former era was also<br />
known for its opulent installation <strong>of</strong> lamps, which soon went<br />
under the nickname “Erichs Lampenladen” (Erich Honnecker‘s<br />
lamp shop). But that is history now. While the Socialist past is<br />
razed to the ground in Germany, a part <strong>of</strong> the prominent lamp installation reappears in France. The<br />
Journalist Lars Weber sets <strong>of</strong>f on a quest to find out what the aesthetic symbols <strong>of</strong> the German past<br />
are doing in France out <strong>of</strong> all places. In his search for the lamps he also sheds a light on Germany <strong>and</strong><br />
the way the country deals with its past.<br />
460<br />
<strong>german</strong> <strong>documentaries</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
Production:<br />
play loud! productions<br />
Gubener Str. 23<br />
10243 Berlin, Germany<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 30 - 29 77 93 15<br />
fax: +49 (0) 30 - 29 77 93 16 16<br />
info@playloud.org<br />
www.playloud.org/klangbadfilm.html<br />
JAMES KRUESS OR THE SEARCH FOR THE HAPPY ISLANDS<br />
by Martina Fluck CULTURE | SOCIETY | LITERATURE | PORTRAIT<br />
From the North See isl<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Helgol<strong>and</strong> to a world-famous, award-winning author: on occasion <strong>of</strong> the<br />
tenth anniversary <strong>of</strong> his passing away, <strong>this</strong> documentary film pays homage to the life <strong>and</strong> oeuvre <strong>of</strong><br />
the writer James Krüss, whose childhood on the small, clearly structured isl<strong>and</strong> marked him for his<br />
entire life. His longing for outer <strong>and</strong> inner isl<strong>and</strong> states becomes clear once more in <strong>this</strong> film. After<br />
World War II his friendship with Erich Kästner brings him to Munich. In the early 60s he becomes very<br />
well known. But his medial prominence makes the homosexual writer open to attack. He flees from<br />
the narrow-mindedness <strong>of</strong> German morale <strong>and</strong> moves to Cran Canary with his partner Dario. We witness<br />
an author who is unusually open towards the media, whose work not only created Isl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> restfulness<br />
in increasingly hectic times, but who also issued warnings in his late work against the pressure<br />
to consume <strong>and</strong> against quiet obedience.<br />
German title: JAMES KRÜSS ODER DIE SUCHE NACH DEN GLÜCKLICHEN INSELN<br />
43min30sec | DigiBeta | 16:9 | original German <strong>and</strong> Spain version with German subtitles, English textlist available<br />
LAMP SHOP<br />
by Wiebke Berndt CULTURE | ESSAY | BERLIN<br />
German title: LAMPENLADEN<br />
17min | DigiBeta | German, English or French version<br />
Contact:<br />
YUCCA Filmproduktion<br />
Martina Fluck<br />
Österweide 21<br />
25746 Heide, Germany<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 481 - 838 83<br />
fax: +49 (0) 481 - 877 71<br />
cell: +49 (0) 160 - <strong>439</strong> 21 30<br />
MartinaFluck@nexgo.de<br />
www.yucca-filmproduktion.de<br />
Contact:<br />
MOSQUITO FILM<br />
Leif Alexis<br />
Oderbergerstr. 46<br />
10435 Berlin, Germany<br />
cell.: +49 (0) 163 - 843 15 81<br />
mail@leifalexis.net
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