Films by Katharina Duve

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

Germany 2012
by Roland Pfaus

For decades now, many scholars and experts have been warning that the seemingly infinite growth may be limited. Today, as these limits have been reached or partly even exceeded, the warnings seem to be heeded slowly but surely. In POLYPOLY some of these experts, among them Prof. Dr. Margrit Kennedy, Helmut Creutz and many others, explain why it has been predictable for decades what we now have got before us – a global collapse of the financial and banking system, which will take other areas dow