From the West
2016 | 61 min | Documentary
Germany was once a torn country divided into East and West. Post-war architecture keeps the memory of this era alive.
Juliane Henrich
DirectorJuliane Henrich is a filmmaker based in Berlin.
Her work often explores the transformation of places and architecture. It has been shown at numerous film festivals and in exhibition settings. Her films are distributed by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art.
Films
Every Miracle
2009 | 27 min | Documentary
The filmmaker portrays an elderly woman who has not given up the fight for living independently. A film about everyday life and aging.
Mit dem Wort Wende
2009 | 3 min | Shorts
Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A time-lapse recording of the Berlin television tower is intertwined with fragments of Wolf's speech on 04.11.1989. The writer called into question the term "Wende", which today is synonymous with the peaceful revolution of 1989, but it was actually SED Secretary General Egon Krenz who first spoke of a ...
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Every Miracle
2009 | 27 min | Documentary
A house of uninhabited rooms, somewhere in West Germany – filled with objects from decades past: family photographs on colorful wallpaper, dusty books, postcards, countless clocks. An older woman still lives there, but she does not see these rooms anymore. Her eyesight is fading, and she can no longer go upstairs unaided. But in her daily routines, everything focuses on the here and now: “Where are we gonna go for dinner?” “What’s the weather going to be like?” And, most important of all, “What time ...
Mit dem Wort Wende
2009 | 3 min | Shorts
Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A time-lapse recording of the Berlin television tower is intertwined with fragments of Wolf's speech on 04.11.1989. The writer called into question the term "Wende", which today is synonymous with the peaceful revolution of 1989, but it was actually SED Secretary General Egon Krenz who first spoke of a ...
Brunaupark
2024 | 92 min | Documentary
BRUNAUPARK opens in a Zurich housing estate with five residential blocks, 405 apartments and around 800 residents, all living under the threat of demolition. The Credit Suisse pension fund plans to replace the site with a new development, and 239 households receive eviction notices, turning everyday life into a prolonged state of uncertainty. Over the course of three years, Felix Hergert and Dominik Zietlow observe a community in transition. Some residents move away, others challenge the evictions ...
Un coup d'oeil
2015 | 17 min | Shorts
Everyday words and moments play out under the eyes of their visitor and and tension surrounding the ambiguity of their intimate friendship and their sexual encounters ensue. In the final act, in the wake of Monique’s absence, Maryam and Frida try to continue with their routines while getting ready for a double date.
In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain
2015 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. A self-proclaimed narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
Kabatas | Fillmore | Atlanten
2013 | 13 min | Icons & Media Art
Yalda Afsahs 3-film-series superimposes fleeting insights into the inner workings of the building spaces of the private and the public, of intimacy and spectacle. In KABATAS, the viewer’s gaze is directed by the movement of the wind occasionally lifting a plastic veil of an Istanbul building. Shot in San Francisco, FILLMORE is a continuation of Yalda Afsah’s close observations of urban spaces. ATLANTEN, shot in Berlin, shows two parts of a viaduct breaching out of a corner building otherwise ...
Tlatelolco
2011 | 75 min | Documentary
Lotte Schreiber's documentary illuminates the history of Mexico City by looking at a housing complex in the capital – an epicenter of Mexican cultural history. The Nonoalco Tlatelolco housing complex at the Plaza de las tres Culturas in Mexico City is a vertical city built by modernist architect Mario Pani in the early 1960s as a modern utopia for 72,000 inhabitants. As early as 1521, the Aztecs faced off against the Spanish conquerors at this site. Bloody student protests followed in 1968 and ...
Re-Destruction
2021 | 45 min | Documentary
Intertwining aerial photos from pre-war times, 1990s documentary footage, and current-day shots with narrations from unseen Beirut residents, this film uncovers the ignored plight of port-side neighborhoods, revealing a history marred by corruption and relentless construction. Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre's documentary delves into Beirut’s harsh reconstruction policies, spanning over four decades. It portrays the consequences of corrupt governance and arbitrary rebuilding, which have ...
Nation Estate
2012 | 9 min | Icons & Media Art
A vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found for the political deadlock in the Middle East. Palestinians have their state in the form of a skyscraper. The building is called the NATION ESTATE. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population – who are now finally living 'the high life'. Each city has its own floor: Jerusalem on the third floor, Ramallah on the fourth floor, Sansour’s native Bethlehem on the fifth and so on. Intercity trips previously marred ...
This is what it looks like
1984 | 5 min | Shorts
This unique architectural documentary shows both the apartment's interior, with its art posters, dishes strewn across the kitchen table and leafy plants as signifiers of a non-conformist lifestyle, as well as views of the courtyard and street. The studio's inhabitant remains unseen but is present through the point of view cinematography. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) awarded the film its prize for its creative use of cinema in exploring urban space and lifestyle. The short experimental ...