Screening
Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
a documentary by Thomas Heise
Germany/Austria 2019, OV, 218 min.
Trailer
Synopsis:
Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit picks up the biographical pieces of a family torn apart through the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. It is about people who by chance found each other, only then to lose each other. Now it is their descendants, their children and grandchildren who are beginning to disappear.This is all about speaking and silence. First love and happiness lost. Fathers and mothers, sons and brothers, the affairs, the hurt and the joy in landscapes of transition – each bearing the intertwining hallmarks of their times. A collage of images, sounds, letters, diaries, notes, voices, fragments of time and space.
Following the screening there will be a personal conversation with director Thomas Heise.
Thomas Heise was born in Berlin (GDR) in 1955. After an apprenticeship as a printer, he worked as an assistant director at the DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1975, while at the same time catching up on his A-levels. From 1978 to 1983, Heise studied at the Babelsberg Academy of Film and Television. His first film, the documentary Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film?, which was shot on black market material, was banned from all public screenings; Heise dropped out of university. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance author and director in theater, radio drama and documentary film. Until the end of the GDR, however, all his documentaries were either prevented, destroyed or confiscated. Heise found an artistic home in the theater, developing a close collaboration with the writer and director Heiner Müller. Heise was a master student at the Akademie der Künste zu Berlin from 1987 to 1990 and a member of the Berliner Ensemble until 1997, where he co-directed a number of productions. From 2007 to 2013, he taught as a professor of film and media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Thomas Heise has been Professor of Art and Film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna since 2013. Since 2018 he has been director of the Film and Media Art section of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Start: 11 am, free choice of seats
Admission free!
No prior registration needed.
Image © Stefan Neuberger, Filmgarten
