german documentaries 2011
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german documentaries 2011
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CLAIMING OF THE SPACE<br />
Ways of Independent Art Exhibitions in the GDR<br />
Claus Loeser and Jakobine Motz ARTS | CULTURE | GERMAN-REUNIFICATION | GDR<br />
In the end of the 1980’s Leipzig was one important centre of independent culture in the GDR.<br />
Painters, photographers, musicians, poets oppose to the requirements of official politics.<br />
From 1985 till 1989 the gallery ‘Eigen+Art’ in Leipzig-Connewitz provided those artists a platform to<br />
present themselves to the public.<br />
The film reconstructs the history of this gallery and looks further back to the roots of independent<br />
exhibitions and activities as the ‘1. Leipziger Herbstsalon’, the ‘Erste Privatgalerie Schweinebraden’<br />
in Berlin or the artist group ‘Clara Mosch’ in Chemnitz.<br />
Original film documents are juxtaposed to interviews and current scenes.<br />
Acknowledgment to Thomas Steinert for the disposal of his image of the 1980’s for press relations.<br />
German title: BEHAUPTUNG DES RAUMS – Wege unabhängiger Ausstellungskultur in der DDR<br />
Festival: DOKLeipzig<br />
100min | 4:3 | original German version with English subtitles available<br />
CLOSE TO HEAVEN<br />
by Titus Faschina AGRICULTURE | DAILY LIFE | EVIRONMENT | NATURE | PORTRAIT | SUSTAINABILITY | WORK<br />
Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of<br />
Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer<br />
as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches<br />
of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge<br />
of heaven…<br />
Vivid histories and fantastic myths, far from the world of today,<br />
cinematically narrated over the course of a year. The last refuge<br />
in Europe for a forgotten profession in an unhurried world.<br />
German titel: DEM HIMMEL GANZ NAH<br />
Festival: DOKLeipzig<br />
93min | HDCam | DigiBeta | PAL | b/w | 16:9 | original Romanian version with English or German subtitles<br />
COLLECTING, REMEMBERING<br />
At the Grassi Museum for Ethnography in Leipzig<br />
by Tamara Wyss ARTS | CULTURE | ETHNOLOGY<br />
After 4 years of renovation in the Grassi Building in Leipzig the collection of the ethnographic museum<br />
is moving back. The long term observation follows the daily work in the museum during the move<br />
and the rebuilding of a new exhibition. During this process we get to know some of the staff and are<br />
confronted with some principal questions as the origin of the objects, the gathering of collections,<br />
exhibition concepts, the raison d'etre of an ethnographic museum and the GDR past. The spectator<br />
gets a glimpse behind the sceneries which usually is hidden from a museum’s visitor.<br />
German title: SAMMELN, ERINNERN – Im Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig<br />
123min | DigiBeta | DVD | 3:4 | letterbox | original German version with English subtitles available<br />
Contact:<br />
Claus Löser<br />
Kopenhagener Str. 73<br />
10437 Berlin, Germany<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 30-47370858<br />
fax: +49 (0) 30-4733777<br />
clausloeser@googlemail.com<br />
World Sales:<br />
Deckert Distribution GmbH<br />
Marienplatz 1<br />
04103 Leipzig, Germany<br />
tel.: +49 (0) 341-2156638<br />
fax: +49 (0) 341-2156639<br />
info@deckert-distribution.com<br />
Contact:<br />
Tamara Wyss<br />
Unionstr. 6<br />
10551 Berlin, Germany<br />
tel.: + 49 (0) 30-39876499<br />
tamwyss@web.de<br />
www.tamara-wyss.de<br />
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