René Frölke

Movies

Traces of Movement Before the Ice
Director
Twenty years after Swiss publishing house Pendo closed its doors, the descendants of its founders repeatedly circle, examine and lose sight of its legacy. Frölke’s film gives structure to this archive via media experimentation.
Music and Apocalypse
Editor
Phoebe Phaidon works as a climatologist at an institute of cybernetics which is about to be shut down. So there has to be a solution in the form of a successful evaluation. The strategy consultants now work against the student movement in a virtual reality. Turmoils start.
One or Two Questions
Dramaturgy
In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament passed a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the military and police during the dictatorship (1973-85). This law of impunity prevented the clarification demanded by the relatives of those who had disappeared and been murdered by the former regime. A public initiative arose calling for a referendum in which the law be subject to the vote of the people. Unas preguntas uses U-matic footage, mostly of interviews recorded on the streets of Uruguay between 1987 and 1989, to present a time capsule of the period.
One or Two Questions
Editor
In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament passed a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the military and police during the dictatorship (1973-85). This law of impunity prevented the clarification demanded by the relatives of those who had disappeared and been murdered by the former regime. A public initiative arose calling for a referendum in which the law be subject to the vote of the people. Unas preguntas uses U-matic footage, mostly of interviews recorded on the streets of Uruguay between 1987 and 1989, to present a time capsule of the period.
From a Year of Non-Events
Writer
Documentary about a 90 year old farmer living alone in the countryside.
From a Year of Non-Events
Director
Documentary about a 90 year old farmer living alone in the countryside.
Le Beau danger
Director
A cinematic arrangement between documentary portrait and literary text. Interwoven with the moving image and divided into 170 black and white text screens, the work of Romanian author Norman Manea is read as an attempt to have image and text question each other and respond to each other.
Asta Upset
Editor
The film is set in a modern day 'Berlin Republic' liberated from all irrelevancies. It's about artistic production, the creative industries and above all film and cinema - a political manifesto in feature film format. It centres on Asta, tough, hardened by theory and immaculately styled right down to the emblems on her leather jacket, with current art scene jargon flowing elegantly from her lips.
Miniature No4
Director
Short documentary with Shoah-survivor Norman Manea.
Miniature No3
Director
Short documentary with Shoa-survivor Norman Manea.
Solar System
Cinematography
Solar System is a film about disappearance. It is a portrait of daily life in the indigenous community of the Kollas in Tinkunaku in the mountains of northern Argentina.
Führung
Writer
Documentary about politicians visiting an art school.
Führung
Director
Documentary about politicians visiting an art school.
Von der Vermählung des Salamanders mit der grünen Schlange
Writer
Documentary about a cloakroom attendant.
Von der Vermählung des Salamanders mit der grünen Schlange
Director
Documentary about a cloakroom attendant.
Material
Editor
"Pictures from the late eighties in the GDR on up to the immediate present in the year 2008 in Germany. What has been left over besieges my mind. All these pictures keep reassembling themselves to make up something which they were originally not made for. They are still in motion. They are becoming history." (Thomas Heise)