Films by Kai Miedendorp

Germany 2012, 14 min
by I.J. Biermann, Fiene Scharp

There is no contact to my father and my grandparents any more. Too often we didn’t see and speak to each other for many years. It seems we never had a real relationship. About their past, which is my family’s history, I don’t know more than a few sentences, adumbrations. Normannenstraße - the street where the former headquarter of the Stasi, the ministry for secret police, ist located. Everyone of the former GDR knows that. Normannenstraße is where I grew up. My grandfather probably worked in th

Germany 2011, 90 min
by Ingo J.Biermann

Nocturne accompanies a piece of music, Night-turn for strings, from its birth in the composer’s head, through rehearsals to its premiere, in this case the first reading of the notes by the musicians of the renowned Kairos Quartet. Featuring also the intellectual, sensory and emotional factors involved, this is a portrait of Dmitri Kourliandski’s inventive compositional methods as well as the working dynamics of a contemporary quartet. To accompany a string quartet whose inner dynamic, arising fr

Germany 2011, 78 min
by Laura Lazzarin

The Veneto is one of Italy’s richest industrial areas. But it hasn’t always been this way. Forty years ago, its inhabitants were often forced to emigrate in order to survive. Today, the situation is reversed: it has become one of the regions with the highest concentrations of immigrants and it has been politically hegemonized by the Northern League. Various encounters with the many different types of people in this area paint a portrait of a territory in which the tragic and the comic often co-e