Setting out from the start of modern cinematography, the cinema of Italian neo-realism from Roberto Rossellini to Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker Jürgen Heiter deals in his latest work with the history of film and cinema, the tracks of its narratives, as well as its topology and morphology.

By sketching the paths and encounters of two couples, plotted at a fictional level is two cultures’ search for their connections. The plot is layered by fragments of a contextual and formal analysis of modernism, whereby topoi, such as aspects of fascist versus contrapunctal modern architecture (Rome E.U.R., Sabaudia), play a central role. The fictional sequences, film excerpts, and interviews thus meld to a filmic discourse on narration, an essay on cinema, its fragmented forms and the possibilities of telling this story (these stories). The director will be present.

Written and directed by: Jürgen Heiter 
Actors: Raoul Coutard, Joseph Zehrer, Ralf Küpper, Claudia 
    Honecker, Olaf Möller, Sven Johansson, among others 
Filmed in Cologne, Berlin, Rome E.U.R., Sabaudia, Paris, 
    and Ostende, 
    104 min., G/E/I/F, DigiBeta, G 2004 
Production: Heiter Filmproduktion in cooperation with 
    ZKM_Institute for Visual Media 
Sponsored by the Ministerium für Städteplanung, Wohnen, Kultur und 
    Sport in Nordrhein-Westfalen [Ministry for city planning, 
    residence, culture, and sports in North Rhine-Westphalia]

Organization / Institution

ZKM