Director
For technical reasons – too massive! – this 50-ton bronze colossus was not demolished in 1993. Today it is listed as a historical monument, along with the associated housing estate. A relic from the old days: Today, the raised fist of the former German Communist Party leader and erstwhile GDR hero Ernst Thälmann in the Prenzlauer Berg park defies the collective forgetting of a not-so-long-ago past instead of heralding the victory of communism.
Director
Snow, film dust, and particles. The worn and torn broken film from an old lanterna magica projector. Retrieved animated footage from around the 1900s is combined with computer animation.
Writer
A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!
Director
A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!
Director
We see the machinery of image projection fail all the time. What happens when art steps in and takes over the process?
Editor
Um museu como um ser vivo, uma entidade que respira e tem personalidade própria. Sokúrov empresta alma ao colossal palacete do Hermitage, em São Petersburgo, um dos maiores museus do mundo. Arca Russa foi filmado em um único plano-seqüência, sem cortes, que dura 97 minutos e atravessa 35 salas do museu, transformando a tela de cinema em um quadro vivo por onde desfilam personagens importantes da história da Rússia: Pedro, o Grande; Catarina, a Grande; Catarina II, Nicolau e Alexandra.
