Film Archive

  • All

Sections (Film Archive)

Land (Film Archive)

International Programme 2018
Eine Person liegt in einem Bällebad.
All Creatures Welcome Sandra Trostel

A creative dive into the CCC hackers’ philosophy, which is not to bemoan the growing digitisation of life but to seize the technology to improve our life.

Eine Person liegt in einem Bällebad.

All Creatures Welcome

Documentary Film
Germany
2018
87 minutes
Subtitles: 
German
English

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Sandra Trostel
Director
Sandra Trostel
Music
Thies Mynther
Cinematographer
Sandra Trostel, Lilli Thalgott
Editor
Sandra Trostel
Animation
Jon Frickey
Script
Sandra Trostel, Thies Mynther
Sound
Jonas Hummel

A playful and highly informative attempt to describe the anarchic variety of creatures who regularly meet at camps and international conventions under the umbrella of Europe’s biggest hacker association, the Chaos Computer Club. Sandra Trostel looks over the shoulders of nerds, political activists, makers and “other galactic life forms” and shows, complemented by short animated sequences, what it means to regard society not as a given fact but as malleable material there to be “hacked”. Renouncing glorification but revealing a well-developed sense for inner contradictions, the film portrays a (sub)culture whose concerns have long become mainstream.



Luc-Carolin Ziemann



Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


Zwei tätowierte Hände mit dunkel lackierten Fingernägeln tippen auf einer Computertastatur.

Exit

Documentary Film
Germany,
Norway,
Sweden
2018
80 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Eirin Gjørv
Director
Karen Winther
Music
Michel Wenzer
Cinematographer
Peter Ask
Editor
Robert Stengård
Script
Karen Winther
Sound
Yvonne Stenberg, Gisle Tveito
When Karen Winther comes across a few old boxes during a move she finds herself confronted with her past. On top are some swastika stickers, next to a tape labelled “Blitz” and “Hits”, and a lot of stuff decorated with the imperial eagle. Twenty years ago she joined a right-wing extremist organisation in Norway, looking for adventure and like-minded people. “It’s embarrassing to look at,” she comments in the voice over.

“Exit” is her film, her story, and yet the plot soon points in other directions, refuses to be constrained by its own structure. Winther travels to the US to meet women who also used to move in right-wing extremist circles. She sits in the car with a former left-wing extremist activist, talking about a formative encounter many years ago. She meets Ingo Hasselbach, “The Führer of Berlin”, whose career in the East German neo-Nazi scene is the subject of Winfried Bonengel’s film “Führer Ex”. And she meets a former jihadist who served a sentence in a Paris prison. In addition to surprisingly similar motivations and experiences, what they all have in common are the difficulties caused by their “Exits” – feelings of guilt, but also threats from still active members.

Carolin Weidner


Awarded with the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, the Young Eyes Film Award and the Gedanken-Aufschluss Prize from the Jury of juvenile and yound adult prisoners of JSA Regis-Breitingen

Media Name: 21155_3.jpg

Stress

Documentary Film
Germany,
USA
2018
83 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Florian Baron, Herbert Burkert
Director
Florian Baron
Music
Yunas Orchestra, Jana Irmert, Fatima Camara
Cinematographer
Johannes Waltermann
Editor
Clemens Walter
Script
Florian Baron
Sound
Jana Irmert, Linus Nickl, Nils Vogel-Bartling
The trauma of 9/11, the ideology of violent retribution, military service as a patriotic family tradition, the “unfairness” of today’s warfare – in their voice-overs, five young Afghanistan war veterans first establish familiar foundations. Joe, Torrie, Mike, James and Justin from Pittsburgh are slow to show us their faces. Physically unharmed but full of inner pain they have become the misunderstood upon their return. Their violent experiences speak a language that the people at home don’t understand.

“Stress” finds an artistic approach that impressively emphasizes the spoken word with all its unmistakeable signals of emotions and produces a physical experience of the tension of a permanent state of alarm in all its complexity. An extremely slow camera and sound follow the verbal descriptions of war experiences with everyday scenes, like a somnambulistic nightmare, creating plastic almost-still lives where everything can be looked at from every side but still remains intangible. They reveal a life behind glass and in a leaden time that moves inexorably forward but allows no real progress. The coda of this intoxicating and oppressive composition reverberates for a long time: it’s Torrie’s conviction that ultimately the army is still a good place to grow up.

André Eckardt


Awarded with the DEFA Sponsoring Prize for an outstanding long German documentary film
Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize