Ich will mich nicht künstlich aufregen

Asta Andersen is a modern fighter, tough, thoroughly styled, theory-steeled, the common vocabulary of the cultural scene rolls elegantly off her lips. For her exhibition "The Cinema. Das Kunst.", she finally seeks international "backing" from an Indian friend, who fortunately happens to be on the spot when, somewhere in the countryside, she has a momentous encounter with her adversary, Frau Ober-Kultur-Intenzentin. ICH WILL MICH NICHT KÜNSTLICH AUFREGEN negotiates contemporary relationships between film, visual culture, the public sphere and politics, as they are inscribed in the urban space of Berlin and the biographies of the people who live and work there. "System criticism has never looked better." (Perlentaucher) "Thoroughly self-reflexive and comedic. Reminiscent of the intelligent political cinema of the late 1960s." (NZZ)