Mein Stern/Im Glück (Neger)
“The whole period of growing up,” is the final title of Thomas Heise’s Im Glück (Lucky). It refers to the six years spent working on the film, which involved repeated approaches to and encounters with his young protagonists. In 1999 Heise began working on a theatre project with them: Heiner Müller’s Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome. What happened after that can often only be guessed at from fragments and scraps, openly and freely presented as a mosaic in motion: at the job centre, in the army, on the train, in letters to a father about alimony payments.
“The whole period of growing up”: Valeska Grisebach’s debut Be My Star, which appeared like a meteor in German-language film, is also a study of Berlin teenagers, the worlds they live and work in, and above all their indescribable, wonderful, painful experiences of first love. Recorded in an elliptical ‘documentary’ style, the film also shines in its truthful depiction of awkwardness. The soundtrack to accompany the heartache is provided by Gigi Di Agostino.
Mein Stern
Valeska Grisebach, 2001, 35mm, colour, english st
Im Glück (Neger)
Thomas Heise, 2006, 35mm, colour, english st
“The whole period of growing up”: Valeska Grisebach’s debut Be My Star, which appeared like a meteor in German-language film, is also a study of Berlin teenagers, the worlds they live and work in, and above all their indescribable, wonderful, painful experiences of first love. Recorded in an elliptical ‘documentary’ style, the film also shines in its truthful depiction of awkwardness. The soundtrack to accompany the heartache is provided by Gigi Di Agostino.
Mein Stern
Valeska Grisebach, 2001, 35mm, colour, english st
Im Glück (Neger)
Thomas Heise, 2006, 35mm, colour, english st
