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Thomas Riedelsheimer
German Competition Documentary Film,
Opening Film
Documentary Film
Germany,
UK
2024
99 minutes
English,
German
Subtitles: 
English, German
Audio Description
World premiere

Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and yet it remains invisible to the eye until it hits matter. This moment is – quite literally – the starting point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the springtime spectacle of rainbow shreds in the cinematographer and documentary filmmaker’s flat became the starting point of a search for the origin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two spheres that seem to follow different laws but always strive to fathom the magical: physics and art.
An intellectual and poetic ping pong game evolves between researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as internationally renowned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its course, the various perspectives on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hardly have been achieved without this methodical cross-over: about laser power and colour pigments, about black holes and floating sculptures. In brief moments, the uninitiated may even get some idea of the laws of quantum physics, generally considered impossible to visualise.


Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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28.10.
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cinematographer
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Editor
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Producer
Sonja Henrici, Stefan Tolz, Leslie Hills
Sound
Hubertus Rath
Sound Design
Christoph von Schönburg
Score
Fred Frith, gabby fluke-mogul

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Nominated for: VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness