Photo filming © Dieter Fietzke
As part of the event series “Giving the country its images” organised by filmbüro NW – Freifläche
Carte blanche for Dieter Fietzke’s 80th birthday: together with FIlmbüro NW, we are showing Dieter Fietzke’s DIE WEISSE CHINESIN as a supporting film and SCHLAPPER WIND AUS SÜD OST.
This documentary Heimatfilm from Nienberge is one of the first films ever to be funded by the film office, at the time from the so-called “fire brigade pot”.
Slack wind from the south-east (1983):
A documentary film about Nienberge’s village farming community in the early 1980s, despite its critical undertones, a commitment to the country and its people. The film describes life in and around Nienberge from the subjective point of view of Dieter Fietzke, who himself lived in the village farming community in the 1980s. The film celebrated its premiere in July 1983 in the hall of the Nienberge restaurant “Zur Post”.
… “At the centre of the film are three Nienberg residents as the main characters, who were accompanied by the camera throughout the entire filming period. Firstly, there is a farmer who tries to keep the use of machinery to a minimum with a great deal of improvisation. The second “star” is a small businessman who builds wire fences and would like to produce a wind turbine. Dieter Fietzke himself plays the third part. Unlike in conventional films, the cameraman takes an active part in the action…” Westfälische Nachrichten, 6.7.83
As a supporting film: The White Chinese Woman or The Attempt to Fathom a Dream … (1987, 8 min.)
Dreams, desires, longings, the consequences of which sometimes frighten us… in this film they are addressed and consciously triggered by a combination of suggestive cinematic means: an endless flowing tracking shot through an old house; sustained neo-romantic music; a theatrically spoken literary text that attracts and repels in equal measure in its romanticising consistency…All these means are used to excess – but applied so thickly that they lead themselves ad absurdum in their cinematic function… Dieter Fietzke, 1987
Youttube video: WDF / “Landesspiegel: Slack wind from south-east” fragment (06.12.1984)
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