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
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
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