Securing Traces
These filmmakers are going on a quest for traces of the past, of cultural history and of their own identity or artistic processes. In doing so, they develop semantic, historical or formal connections. In what way are we products of our own history? What has changed over time? How did it influence our view of the world? Topics that have occupied people ever since, and which have been sources of artistic creations. The filmmakers of this program deal with retrospection, traces and the quest for identity each in their own way.
Groeten uit Hindeloopen
An everyday evening walk around the small town of Hindeloopen.
- Deutschland
- 00:03:27
- Director: Florian Maubach
- Production: Florian Maubach
- Photography: Florian Maubach
- Editing: Florian Maubach
- Music: Florian Maubach
- Sound: Florian Maubach
- Year: 2014
- Website
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
To Go
Rapid change is happening in Berlin's Westcity. Close to the modern changes one encounters last traces of the 70s and 80s. Memories of a bygone and more contemplative era slowly appear. The flâneurs of yesteryear come face to face with today's pedestrians.
- Deutschland
- 00:14:26
- Director: Ulf Staeger
- Production: Ulf Staeger
- Photography: Jörn Staeger
- Editing: Ulf Staeger
- Music: keine
- Sound: Jochen Jezussek, poleposition Berlin
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- Website
- Golden Hercules
The Bench
The bench on a hill with a view over fields and meadows. It’s a place of remembrance, a reverie of the past, of happenings during childhood and youth. An homage to a meaningless place.
- Deutschland
- 00:02:12
- Director: Lisa Zschocke
- Production: -
- Photography: -
- Editing: -
- Music: -
- Sound: -
- Year: 2015
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Victoire
VICTOIRE portrays the Réunionnaise Nathanaëlle Victoire and explores small references to colonial history and global migration. As is common among the inhabitants of the small French island La Réunion in the Indian Ocean, Nathanaëlle Victoire’s ancestors originate from several countries on three continents. Details of her clothes, handbag and jewelry seem to hint at the connections to her family tree’s various branches. It is an attempt to read family history in details and to define a society's wealth through the diverse origins of its individual members. A calm, almost peaceful film considering the enormous historical upheavals which it hints at.
- Deutschland, Französische Südgebiete
- 00:03:47
- Director: Joey Arand
- Production: Joey Arand
- Photography: Joey Arand
- Editing: Joey Arand
- Music: -
- Sound: Aurore Desvaux de Mariguy
- Languages: fr
- Subtitles: de
- Year: 2014
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Short Stories
A Rocket launch, an explosion, jumping, "Splash" beneath, commotion above, more to the left, infinity underneath… Using semantic, narrative or formal elements, connections and comparisons are being made. One image overlaps another, the sound loses its rhythm. The selection and order are based on the cut-up technique. The material was found online.
- Deutschland
- 00:03:37
- Director: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Production: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Photography: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Editing: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Music: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Sound: Jan-Hendrik Gebbe
- Year: 2015
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Eating from the Floor of History
We harvest pumpkins from a graveyard and turn them into soup. We plant sage on tombs. Why not grow tomatoes there, if any soil holds history? The starting point of this thought experiment shot on 16 mm is an industrial park. It is located on the site of the former airfield of Kassel Waldau, just four kilometers south of Kassel's city center, which was used as the factory airfield of the plane manufacturer Fieseler. This so-called "National-Socialist model company" built several military planes and developed the V1. Today the old pathways are overgrown by apples, berries and mushrooms. "Eating from the ground of history" starts out from the idea that every soil has a history and, no matter how destructive this history was, it can be eaten in the form of the fruits it bears.
- Deutschland
- 00:03:46
- Director: Sita Scherer
- Production: Kunsthochschule Kassel
- Photography: Sita Scherer
- Editing: Sita Scherer
- Music: -
- Sound: Sita Scherer
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- Golden Hercules
The Wind, The Wind, The Heavenly Child
„We are world heritage“ was the slogan which was written on posters all over Kassel after the „Bergpark“ was named as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. But what is behind the notion “World Heritage”? Who are the people who preserve this heritage? What is their motivation? What role do time, tradition, remembrance and forgetting play in art? This documentary asks these and other questions in twelve associatively linked chapters.
- Deutschland
- 00:36:15
- Director: Tobias Sauer
- Production: Tobias Sauer
- Photography: Tobias Sauer
Juan Mora Cid - Editing: Tobias Sauer
- Music: Kevin MacLeod
- Sound: Tobias Sauer
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
