Osa Archivum Catalog

Material

Summary: A visual diary assembled from previously unused film material shot at the time before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Put together in a poetic, non-linear way, Material takes off from the premise of recycling, archaeologically as well as reflexively, orphaned images, vagabond, almost ghostly scenes. Such as those recorded by Thomas Heise himself, during the staging of a play by Heiner Müller – but observed from the point of view of the relationship between the audience and the piece, and between the two directors. Images of Democratic Germany up to the present, where political acts, television shows, interviews with prisoners and policemen, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even stones thrown at Müller’s lens follow one after the other. Any film or digital format suits Heise’s digressive memory exercise. Just as the director himself says: “Those residual images have besieged my head, constantly reassembling themselves into new shapes that are further and further removed from their original meaning and function. They remain in motion. They become history. The material remains incomplete. It consists of what I held on to, what remained important to me. It is my picture.”

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1716	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1716 (HU_OSA_00003340.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format