Films by Elias Gottstein

2021, 88 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Lotte Ingrisch, born in 1930 in Austria, was the first hippie, the first Green, a prophet of the Age of Aquarius, of cyberspace culture and - without being a feminist herself - a champion of the total change of roles for women. The film tries to get closer to this idiosyncratic and unique personality, both cinematically and aurally.with Lotte Ingrisch, Johanna Klug, Kathrin Angerer, Lars Rudolph, Ingrid Altermann, Christine Weber, Magdaléna Jánosová, Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmid and Unit

Germany 2020, 79 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

The traces of what we were in our childhood of how we got socialized, keep affecting our adult age, even if the circumstances of life are completely different now and we believe, that we’ve settled with the past. This ist why the return to our environment of origin, from where we’ve emerged and from which we departed, is always and at the sam time, a turning-back, a retrospective, a reencounter with our own self – preserved, as well as denied. Then something enters our consciousness, of which we

Germany 2019, 86 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

The diagnosis: an aneurysm in the brain. Then follow two nightmarish months during which we accompany the filmmaker. An essayistic audio-visual collage, in which Sobo Swobodnik shows us what it means to live with a potentially fatal condition.