Tag: Sven

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Sven Johne | Dear Vladimir Putin

In “Dear Vladimir Putin” (2017), Peter Bittel prepares for his ‚big gig‘: a speech to Vladimir Putin about things personal and political, a monologue in Russian around 18 minutes long. The retired civil-engineer practices reading his script, edits and rejects or hones individual passages, and sometimes despairs…

Sven Johne | A Sense of Warmth

„My younger brother worked as a packer at Amazon for a while. And that island and those bird ringers really exist, I’ve been there twice, it was great every time. This film is very personal, because – to be honest – I just listened to myself. I’m plagued by these Biedermeier fantasies.“ — Sven Johne…

Sven Johne | Jutta

„A true story. If you made that up, everyone would say: Man, that’s a hell of a construction… But I just collected everything from Twitter and YouTube and the news. Tatja Seibt is a great actress.“ — Sven Johne Jutta, 2014HD video, German with English subtitles, 17:36 min.ed. 5+2 a.p. A paradise island – beaches,…

Sven Johne | Greatest Show on Earth

While the traditional image of traveling circus might have become an anachronism, what it stands for still remains: sweet promise of happiness. “Greatest Show on Earth” (2011) reveals the ridiculousness of these promises by presenting a compere, who announces an endless series of sensations but when listened to closely, who sets the audience at unease…

Sven Johne | Tears of the Eyewitness

„Tears of the Eyewitness“ (2009) puts its focus on the construction of history and memory. A strange interplay develops between the artificial and the candidly felt emotions, between the memory influenced by media and by personal experience…