Gerd Roscher

In 1930s Buenos Aires, exiled writer Michael attempts to continue his work, though the overwhelming city make his hands tremble. Decades later, he reenters the life of Argentine artist Mari through a book. She engages with his fantasies and begins to follow him, until one day he hears her whistling.

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Documentary about German proletarian films in the 1920s

This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

60 years ago Antonin Artaud started on a voyage to the North of Mexico to get to know the rituals of the Tarahumara indians. He described this voyage in several papers. Many travellers to the Sierra Tarahumara followed his traces. After his return he was locked up in psychiatric clinics until shortly before his death. The film reconstructs authentically Artaud's route: from the dances behind the mission settlements to the Peyote rituals of the shaman. Behind the fear and fascination of the unknown Artaud senses another order. "I shall find the real drama" he writes. "It need not be on the stage".

Hamburg, May 1945, English troops occupy the city. The gates of the concentration camps open. The Germans speak of collapse and take care of everyday life. Only a few feel liberated and think of a new beginning. At the end there is a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann: We'll end the rut, otherwise the end will be spoiled.