Baldiga - Unlocked Heart

Germany2024documentary90'Międzynarodowy konkurs dokumentalny (2024)

‘My libido will kill me one day’, said Jürgen Baldiga, a young photographer, poet and activist. In the 1980s in West Berlin, he was a co-founder and chronicler of the local LGBT+ culture. The abundant archival materials, including journals, he left behind were used to tell a neurotic story about himself and the community living in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Baldiga’s uncompromising, provocative and ‘dirty’ photographs documented the atmosphere of the time when hedonism was also a desperate response to omnipresent fear and a moral stigma. Age rated: 18+

directed by
Markus Stein, portret reżysera
Markus Stein

Born in 1965, Markus Stein worked as a camera assistant and assistant director before studying directing at the Polish Film School in Łódź. He went on to work as a director, screenwriter, DOP and editor on numerous documentaries and feature films. The people portrayed are at the centre of the formal decisions in his work. Subjects, themes and genres are therefore diverse. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

cinematography
Florian Lampersberger
script
Ringo Rösener
animated by
Florian Lampersberger
protagonists
Bernd Gaiser, Juliette Brinkmann, Birgit Baldiga, Tima die Göttliche, Ichgola Androgyn, Kaspar Kamäleon, Keikawus Arastéh, Volker Wierz, Manuela Merkel, Sakine Meral, Hermann Jansen, Ulf Reimer, Ingo Taubhorn
music
Manuela Schnininà, Claus Stoermer
sound
Manuela Schininà, Claus Stoermer
editing
Brigitte Maria Schmidle
production
Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft mbH)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Baldiga - Unlocked Heart