Films by Matthias Seldte

Germany 2011, 53 min
by Asteris Kutulas, Klaus Salge

Mikis Theodorakis, Composer is the first film to take the musical oeuvre of the Greek composer as its principal subject. The chronologically structured documentary gives a concentrated overview of Theodorakis’ nigh seven decades of artistic creation, from his ecclesiastic compositions as a young man to the operas of the nineties. The artist’s extremely eventful life is depicted in its symbiotic relationship to his compositions. The film above all lets the composer have his say. Music and image s

Germany 2010, 43 min
by Gerhard Widmer, Michael Wolff (fact+film)

The modern digitalized world is tied together through glass fibre cables. Although overall stable, damages to sea cables in certain regions can still arrest whole economies. Billions of dollars depend on new technological developments in glass fibre cable technology. Science has come a long way since the “Great Eastern”, the largest ship of its era, installed the first sea cable in 1866. In this documentary, current visions and developments in glass fibre technology are interwoven with a re-tell

Germany 1991, 55 min
by Thomas Balzer

Amadeu Antonio came to the GDR from Angola as a "contract worker" in 1987. One year after the opening of the Wall, on the night of November 24-25, 1990, Amadeu Antonio and some of his work colleagues were attacked by a group of neo-Nazis and skinheads in front of the discotheque "Hüttengasthof" in Eberswalde, a small town northwest of Berlin. While his friends were able to save themselves, some of them seriously injured, Amadeu Antonio did not escape the thugs. He remained unconscious and u