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Material by Thomas Heise

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Country of production
Germany

Year of production
1988-2009

Format
HD-Cam, Digi Beta

Length
166 min

Director
Thomas Heise

Production
ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Thomas Heise and ZDF in collaboration with ARTE
 
It starts with the laughter of children. Images from the late 80ies in the GDR to the immediate present of the year 2008 in Germany.
Those residual images have besieged my head, constantly reassembling themselves into new shapes that are further and further removed from their original meaning and function. They remain in motion. They become history.
The material remains incomplete. It consists of what I held on to, what remained important to me. It is my picture.

Original Language
German

Subtitles
English

Festivals
Berlinale 2009 (Int. Forum of New Cinema), Germany
Visions du Réel Nyon 2009, Switzerland
BAFICI Buenos Aires 2009, Argentina
Dokwoche Hamburg 2009, Germany
DOK.FEST Munich 2009, Germany
Planete Doc Review Warsaw 2009, Poland
Santiago de Chile FF 2009, Chile
Festival des Deutschen Films Mannheim 2009, Germany
Lussas IDF 2009, France
Cambridge FF 2009, UK
Avant Garde FF Athen 2009, Greece
Vancouver IFF 2009, Canada
DocLisboa 2009, Portugal
Viennale 2009, Austria
Festival dei Popoli Florence 2009, Italy
FIC Brasília 2009, Brazil
Awards
FID Marseille 2009, France (Grand Prix of the International Competition)

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