Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

My Father's Nature

The filmmaker’s father owns a collection of stuffed forest animals. Some of the animals lay neglected in a corner. After the father repairs the ear of a rabbit, he takes a selection of animals to his car and loads them into the trunk.

A Forest Within a Forest

Nashi, a mixed creature between human, animal and plant shows us a forest that is complemented by robots. Nashi explains that humans are equal to all other creatures but criticizes nature for its inflexibility. If it wants to survive it should better learn from the robots.

Mastering Bambi

“Bambi” is without question the most significant work in which the minds at Disney adapted the portrayal of nature to the world of human emotions. MASTERING BAMBI is a remake, only the animals are completely missing. What remains are camera movements through images of a forest left to its own devices, accompanied by the film's soundtrack. Without the stories and the characters which are normally used to create the mood, only the trees and plants are present, more as a mental landscape than a real forest. An utopian, constructed world of imagery with lots of space set aside to observe it closely.

The Animals

Wild animals have disappeared from everyday city life. They are in special places somewhere else, so it seems as if they were not there at all. LOS ANIMALES guides us through a zoo at night and a museum of natural history, while the animals look at us from glass cases.

Buck Fever

BUCK FEVER uses youtube videos provided by amateur hunters from the USA and composes a dramaturgical prototype. It seems as though the motivation of the hunters lies in the act of killing itself. This does not fit to the careful huntsman and his closeness to nature, how the fairy tale tells it.

Grandmother and the Wolf

The big energy cooperation Vattenfall has a coal mine in the area of Lausitz: forests are chopped down and villages are relocated. At the same time wolves are finding a new habitat here. This documentary narration is interrupted by apocalyptic images and shows the consequences of industrial culture on humans and nature.