New films by Thomas Heise

April 30, 2006

 
The works of East Berlin born Thomas Heise give us alternative readings of Germany’s recent past and present. With his fragmentary yet persistent documentary portraits of lives on the margin, Heise creates the "Truemmerfilme” ("rubble films") of today. On April 30, the Film Museum will premiere Heise’s two most recent films in Vienna.
 
In Mein Bruder. We'll Meet Again, the filmmaker visits his dying brother who has moved to an idyllic setting in the French Pyrenées, where he lives with his friend Micha who spied on both Heise brothers for the Stasi.

Im Glück (Neger) is a kaleidoscopic report of young people in Riesa, a town in Saxony. The central figure is Sven, who is unemployed and lost between application forms and his innermost feelings, the theatre, landscapes and writings by Lautréamont.
 
A joint programme with Crossing Europe – Film Festival Linz.