Films by Karsten Krause

Germany 2021, 65 min
by Katharina Pethke

Due to an actor, the life of the documentary filmmaker is thrown into existential turmoil: While for him everything in life is a game, she still firmly believes in reality.When she begins to document their joint encounter, however, the initial fascination is already over: between closeness and distance, the two protagonists sometimes repel, sometimes attract each other.Their triangular relationship with the camera and the sound device resembles a power struggle in the joint struggle for interpre

Germany 2020, 49 min
by Karsten Krause

Spaces expand or disappear. Oceans become deserts. Rock erodes to sand and dust and human kind is passing by all this. Since the beginning of our existence, we are constantly moving from one place to another, fleeing hunger, war or the forces of nature, but also driven by a sense of longing for change. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA traces forms of migration, interweaving them with geological and archaeological cartographies. In magical tableaux, the film draws a cinegraphic melancholy where a border

Germany 2018, 67 min
by Luise Donschen

A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume of Casanova. A young woman‘s skirt is just as orange as the beak of a zebra finch singing in a cage. White lilies stand at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary, red roses in front of the window of an SM studio. There the quiet game of submission in exchange for money, in a museum an embrace, a poem whispered in the ear. Children playing in a forest in autumn. A forest in summer, framed by ligh

2014, 95 min

As Helga always says: "Kids, drink in moderation, but frequently." 25 years ago, she took over the bar Kurze Ecke from her late husband. The corner pub has long since ceased to fit in with the polished image of Hamburg's Großneumarkt area. The same can be said of its clientele: workers, ex-seamen and pensioners. Today is General Election day. The film documents events in the bar from 9am until the results are announced. Smoke, drink, debate. Some play dice for washing powder and wurst. Then it's

Germany 2011, 29 min
by Karsten Krause, Philip Widmann

Gerti Gerbert was photographed by her husband Eugen over a period spanning more than forty years. Besides the obligatory family photographs, from their wedding day until his death Eugen took countless pictures of Gerti: in her underwear, in homemade summer frocks, or completely naked; on the beach, in the woods, in the car, or on the floor at home. Using the Gerberts’ picture archive, interviews with Gerti, and Eugen’s notes, the film looks at what remains of life and love at the end.

Germany 2010, 28 min
by Christian Hornung

Gleb runs a small hair salon in Hamburg-Altona. It’s the only shop in the street, and for many of his elderly clients the visit of the salon is the highlight of the day. The solitude of these people preoccupies Gleb, but simultaneously it stimulates his vivid imagination. While giving perms and darkening eyelashes, he tells his customers about his idea of a film which involves an unhappy man, a lonely woman, and a hairdresser for whom, of course, a very special part is reserved. Thanks to the gr

Germany 2009
by Karsten Krause

Every year Edwin Steurer spends the summer months alone with his livestock, on the Wildmoos Alp, in Bregenz Forest, Austria. He is now seventy-four and still carries out this difficult, exhausting work with care and patience. Above all, Edwin works without rushing, taking the necessary time. “Up here there is always enough time,” says the farmer, putting off until tomorrow what he is unable to complete today. This clean, direct videographic recounting isolates the protagonist from his surroundin