Germany 2016, 11 minby Alexandra Pohlmeier
This short film, created out of individual, single digital photos, does not tell a story.The camera looks at the North German mud flats, a World Heritage site, as if through a window with always the exact same view. The real drama takes place where nothing seems to happen: time passes unalterably. Through one day, from morning to evening – through the year, from summer to fall and winter to summer – during one tide, from ebb to flow to ebb. Almost imperceptibly, during the course of one single d
ONE DAY ONE YEAR ONE TIDE - A Brief Film About Time
Germany 2008, 90 minby Alexandra Pohlmeier
THE SKY AND BEYOND reflects on the remarkable life of the 91 year old sculptor Dorothea Buck who cured herself from schizophrenia. Born in 1917 she got the diagnosis of schizophrenia at the age of nineteen. 1936 she was forcibly sterilized. A few years later she barely escaped euthanasia. Contrary to all prognoses 'incurable mental illness' Dorothea Buck tried to understand what drove her into psychosis and developed her own theory of her illness. That way she found the key to her own sanity. Be
THE SKY AND BEYOND - On the Trail of Dorothea Buck
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