Films by Marian Mayland

2022, 28 min
by Marian Mayland

The world is not always beautiful, my mother says. My child wakes up. My parents smile at each other, and recount -The house in which my mother never wanted to live in, my uncle's mental illness, which my grandparents never wanted to face, the nuclear war that never never arrived.They speak of unrealized intentions. To be sterilized, to take one's own life, to pack up and leave.

2020, 17 min
by Ole-Kristian Heyer, Patrick Lohse, Marian Mayland

In August 1984 a house inhabited by migrant workers was burnt down in Duisburg, killing seven members of a family. While the police immediately ruled out racism as a reason, the survivors continue to doubt that it was a coincidence that their house was set on fire.

Germany 2019, 29 min
by Marian Mayland

untitled (a refusal of leave to land) is an essayistic short film on a prisoner of war camp from the second world war, the arms industry in the Ruhr area and the relation between individual and collective memory. Starting out with a childhood memory of finding a fossil in a bed of rocks of a former railroad track, the narration follows the connections between the former POW camp Stalag VI F in Bocholt and the Krupp company in Essen.

Germany 2017, 15 min
by Marian Mayland

Essen, Germany, 2016. Two obsolete apparitions: Super 8mm film stock, Kodachrome K40, exposed 30 years past its expiry date – and the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).On January 17th, 2017, the second, four-year long trial on a proposed ban of the NPD ended. The German Supreme Court decided against the ban. A party that seems too insignificant to prohibit its existence.A short film on the human tendency to find patterns in noise. A film on conspiracy theory, on the state of t