Films by Luise Donschen

Germany 2021, 14 min
by Luise Donschen

In the glaring light of a spring day, a father and his child roam the Botanical Garden. After losing sight of each other, they each have their own encounters. Finally, both leave the garden together and stop at the river. A flute sounds from a flowering bush – someone is practicing the instrument in secret.With: Kaori Asao, Nike Donschen, Felix-Sören MeyerSupported by Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa

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