Films by Adama Ulrich

Germany 2018, 130 min
by Adama Ulrich, Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert

In a society that increasingly resists new ways of thinking and aesthetic transgressions, Frank Castorf calls theatre ‘the last partisan.’ As its director since the early 1990s, Castorf made the Berlin Volksbühne a place of the avant-garde.The film accompanies Castorf on his farewell production of ‘Faust’, while also providing a glimpse of the engine room of this theatre factory. Comrades-in-arms, including the actors Sophie Rois and Alexander Scheer, recall the theatre‘s unique work environmen

Germany 2008
by Adama Ulrich

From the Enfant Terrible of East-German theater to the leader of the Berlin Volksbuehne: Provocation, playing with realities and chasing the boundaries of art is the focus of Frank Castorf’s work. The portrait documentary approaches to meet one of the most controversial and most successfull renewers of German theater. What is pushing him forward? What is his aim? How is he accomplishing the things he accomplishes?

Germany 2008
by Friederike Schlumbom, Adama Ulrich

8mm LIEBE investigates how love can be captured on film. Twelve amateure filmmakers from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and France open their privae archives and tell us what they wanted to archive by recording their love on celluloid. When did they start to film the love of their life, when and why did they stop? Do their films reflect their relationships or to they seem in retrospect,like a glorified distortion of reality? The students Liza and Sebastian from Stuttgart filmed each other