Riki Kalbe

Bodenproben focuses on the Prinz-Albrecht site, the former headquarters of the Gestapo in Berlin, which was used as a rubble dump until the provisional Topography of Terror memorial was erected in the fall of 1986.

In September 1780, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the poem “Over all the hilltops is quiet now” on the timber wall of a hunting lodge on Kickelhahn mountain in the Thuringian Forest. Already in Goethe’s lifetime, these verses had been set to music by all kinds of composers. The newest musical interpretation is composed by Blixa Bargeld for the short film EIN GLEICHES. The film was shot in September 1997 in the area of the same hunting lodge on Kickelhahn mountain in the Thuringian Forest.

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In 1939, the sculptor Josef Thorak made a bronze horse sculpture, which was set up in front of the Reich Chancellery. The film visits the different stations and traces of the sculpture after 1945, which has not managed to take root as a monument. What commemorative function do such objects serve?

With and about her friend and painter Bettina von Arnim. Filmed in her house in southern France.

The initial idea was to make a children’s film about chocolate-covered marshmallows. How they are made, what they are made of, where they are made, who manufactures them under what conditions. The women who work on the assembly line are happy to tell us all about themselves. We are a welcome diversion. We noticed that the men have the better jobs and also earn more money. The women don’t entirely let themselves be taken in by the meritocracy. Talking, goofing off, and singing, they help each other to get through their 8-hour day. We like that. We drop the idea of a children’s film. In this film we tried out a documentary film form that deliberately does without interviews, relying instead largely on the effect of the images. From today's perspective the film alsooffers a glimpse into the history of migration in West Germany.

The film combines documentary scenes, TV clips, and passages from an interview with the then Postmaster General Christian Schwarz-Schilling in a fictional plot and mixes video and 16mm film. A film on videotext and the brave new media world, in which the – presumably first – female hacker redirects a few things into other channels. It is also a critique of the working conditions in the emerging information service industry.

The film shows the difficulties girls face in learning a so-called male profession.

A bust of Mao Tse-tung is being passed from person to person.

A documentary about the Sonnborn motorway junction and its history.

Two men are sitting by the sea, gazing at the horizon.

Berlin 1978. The film tells the story of three women who live together and build a jamming transmitter, which they use to highjack the soundtrack of TV news broadcasts. Why they do this is explained through a polemic montage of archival TV footage, which shows how men in leadership positions talk about women and what they do.

Aerobics or trying to cross an intersection.

Two women walk along curbs and sidewalks.

The film tells the story of the varying air quality in Berlin over three different decades.

Short film about the development of road traffic noise from 1945 to 1990, using the example of a bedroom window at night.