Christoph Schlingensief
Crackle of time.

More than two years have passed since the German film and theatre maker and creator of images, Christoph Schlingensief died – while still largely unknown outside German speaking countries his work has long become part of the collective memory. From the legendary container-action “Ausländer raus!” exposing Austrian politics in a complex game of deception of media facts and fictions, to his Bayreuth interpretation of “Parsifal”, Christoph Schlingensief still is insistently present and often mistaken as an “agent provocateur”.

Sibylle Dahrendorf’s film portrait "Crackle of Time" shows the dying artist setting out for Burkina Faso – with all his hopes, despairs and visions of setting up his own opera village, almost in a no man’s land. But do these scenes show a political artist? Or was he rather using the “third world” as a film location for a monumental home movie, including an unhappy end?

Regie: Sibylle Dahrendorf
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Carl Hegemann
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Claus Philipp