Heidrun Holzfeind

Through thoughtful letters from prison, an anarchist incarcerated since 1980 reflects on his radical past.

the time is now. is a film portrait of the Japanese shamanic improvisation duo IRO. The couple Shizuko and Toshio Orimo have worked together since 1981. Their music, their activism in the peace and anti-nuclear movement, and their free-spirited way of life reflect an animist and pantheistic worldview that rejects commercialism in all its forms.

A low budget dramatization of 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis combining appropriated footage and re-enactments.

Holzfeind’s documentary style video artwork addresses the wider social and political phenomena of globalisation by diving into the fragmented scenes of the lives of Romanian refugees whose lives oscillate between their current ‘home’ in Austria and their original home in Romania. From the harsh working conditions that are embedded in their middle-class jobs to the poverty of refugee camps, the Holzfeind casts a light on the larger totality of globalisation by deciphering the blurred identities of these refugees, and by large, any immigrant that are going through similar, perhaps more poignant experiences around the globe.

Can school be exciting and even fun? The integrative pre-vocational August Sander school in Berlin-Friedrichshain at least seems the perfect place for this. The noise of the cars of the big city can be heard from the distance, birds are singing on the lush green grounds. Lessons here include horticulture, agriculture and animal care. And when you watch the students weed garden plots and feed rabbits, things look extremely enviable at first glance. But of course, even in this paradisiacal place there are conflicts, annoying teachers and the anxious question: What comes after graduation?