Miniatures - Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf (S)

1983 · Documentary · 16 min. · Austria

Short Film Experimental Cinema

The semi-documentary footage used for "Miniaturen - viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf" ("Miniatures--Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf") was shot on June 3, 4 and 5, 1983. That weekend, in what was deemed a "country outing," an impressive number of artists from Berlin (about 50 people, including the fans) went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin's avant-garde art. This event, organized by Thomas Kapielski and Peter Hilber ("Artists dispatches hilber-kapielski"), included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an "experimental examination." The final version was never officially released, as it was intended to be nothing more than a personal interpretation of a few - mainly peripheral - moments in Hoisdorf and a subjective reminiscence for the participants. Its official premiere took place at a fabulous reunion party held on September 24, 1983 at Berlin's legendary "Lunapark". Thomas Kapielski, who has since attained considerable prominence also in the field of literature ("Gottesbeweise", "Sozialmanierismus", etc.), contributed the wonderful soundtrack, which was recorded during a night session on September 22, 1983. In this soundtrack, short compositions by Kapielski alternate with a conversation between the musician and the film director, in which individual sequences of the film (projected simultaneously) are explained and commented upon. That talk was recorded live - listen for example for the ringing telephone which suddenly bursts into the recording session towards the end of the miniature "Breakfast als Hilber". Due also to live sound manipulations performed with a synthesizer, a great deal of that conversation remains incomprehensible.

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Cast Rolf-Peter Baacke · Fritz Balthaus · Ingrid Buschmann · Frieder Butzmann · Caspar · Werner Durand · Karl-Heinz Eckert · Antje Fels · Gerti Fietzek · Christoph Hahn · Folke Hanfeld · Peter Hilber · Thomas Kapielski · Thomas Kiesel · Julia Kliesch · Nils Krüger · Lucie · Anne-Claire Martin · Ulli Polomski · Fritz Rahmann · Thomas Rug · Kade Schacht · Thomas Schulz · Nanaé Suzuki · Peter Tscherkassky