HEIMSPIEL zeigt: Erzählungen eines Kinogehers

Reminiscences of a Moviegoer
"Documentary film with animated segments
2025, 95 min. Colour, Dolby 5.1
German with English subtitles
In the summer before Werner Dütsch passed away, Christiane Büchner filmed an interview with him about his life. For more than eight hours, he recounts his educational and professional journey in a vivid and straightforward manner. Cinema as sustenance. His professional biography appears as a densely woven fabric of very different insights into cinema, into which he repeatedly weaves new threads. It becomes a method of watching films. The distance from the beginnings of cinema to the present day of media does not appear to him as a path of progress, but as an open landscape in which viewing experiences can be freely exchanged. This intellectual movement is expressed in the director's sketch-like animations. Lines and surfaces create an impression of cinema; the drawings draw elastic connections between the films that Dütsch evokes in conversation and their interpretation. They contribute to the playful flow that will carry the transmedial project as a whole. The second part of the project, which has not yet been realised, will open up the film's narrative to further perspectives through media. The protagonist will become the host of guest authors, and the film will become an interface for their complementary perspectives.

Christiane Büchner studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. For her diploma thesis at the KHM, an interactive project for a virtual studio, she received the ‘Best of 3D Animation Award’ in the ‘Mixed Realities’ category at Photokina 2000. In 2005, she received the Gerd Ruge Scholarship from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW for her documentary film ‘pereSTROIKA – umBAU einer Wohnung’ (pereSTROIKA – renovation of an apartment). Her film ‘Family Business’ was awarded the NRW Film Prize for Best Documentary at the 2016 Cologne Film Festival.
Since 2001, she has been a member of the selection committee for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and, since 2017, a member of the FFA Commission for Production and Screenplay Funding. She is co-founder of the film network ‘LaDOC’. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, she has been teaching film and other time-based media since 2001.