1st contribution to the special program of the Ahrenshoop Film Nights by Jürgen Heiter (D 2010 116 min) followed by a discussion with Jürgen Heiter
The starting point of the essayistic documentary film is the song of the same name, which was recorded by Oliver Augst in the context of a larger audio work for Hessischer Rundfunk in 2004. The song is a text fragment borrowed from Ernst Toller's work "Tag des Proletariats, Chorwerk zum Andenken Karl Liebknecht, 1920". In his film, Jürgen Heiter asks in what form and with what approaches filmmakers, conceptual artists, musicians, scientists and authors formulate utopias today or question them. Heiter explores the utopian in the form of a cinematic collage that makes no distinction between documentary and fiction. Participants include the filmmaker Fernando Birri from Argentina, one of the fathers of revolutionary cinema in Latin America, the pop singer Marianne Rosenberg, who, as a kind of female Jean-Luc Godard, interviews an eight-year-old boy, the actor Udo Kier, who meets a blind man on the beach in Venice, California, the film critic Olaf Möller and the chaos researcher Otto E. Rössler. (Source: 3Sat)
JÜRGEN HEITER
At the center of an exhibition since September 2025 is the work of filmmaker Jürgen Heiter, which combines film, visual arts and literature. As a living archive, the show was created in collaboration with the interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis and former scholarship holders of the Künstlerhaus Lukas under the title "o.T. (Through the Eyes of Julia)" at the Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop. The film is part of the project.
