Films by Robert Laatz

Germany 2010, 10 min
by Kirstin Büttner, Frank Wörler, Linda Matern

How can arise moving image, that has its origin in the written or spoken word? The film "LyriX" deve- lops this question in a depiced way. Three poems of the lyricist Hendrik Rost – ‘X’, ‘Radio Germany’, ‘The last poem’- find complete expression in an exposed and difrent way. It evolves a dash of the world of the lyricist from Hamburg: As an avid surfer he exposes himself to the ocean. The physicality of this extreme sport can be sensed, but always stays in the aloof view of the camera.

Germany 2010, 108 min
by Joachim Tschirner (UM WELT FILM)

The film accompanies the biggest clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining and takes the viewers to the big mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada. Uranium mining, the first link in the chain of nuclear development, has managed again and again to keep itself out of the public eye. A web of propaganda, disinformation and lies covers its 65-year history. The third largest uranium mine in the world was located in the East German provinces of Saxony and Thuringia. Operating until the Reuni