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Thomas Heise | D 2011 | 100 min. foto

Material: 35mm
Format: BluRay
Original language: Spanish

Script: Thomas Heise
Camera: Robert Nickolaus, Jutta Tränkle, René Frölke
Editing: Trevor Hall
Sound: René Frölke, Robert Nickolaus, Thomas Heise

With the community of the Kollas of Tinkunaku, Argentinia

Production: Thomas Heise, Goethe-Institut Buenos Aire, Filminstitut am ZKM Karlsruhe
Print/Sales: Thomas Heise

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Non-verbally, exclusively through images the film approaches the people of a small indigenous Kolla community. We accompany the seasonal tramp of Viviano and Ramona from the valley up to the village of Santa Cruz, 3000 meters above sea level, where they spend the summertime until the autumn rain makes them go back to Rio Blanquito. Living with the Kollas, inbetween the old rites and the irruptive modernity, in the grandiose landscape of Yunga and Quechua, the film narrates the day-to-day disappearence of an indigenous people. Dies irae. – Thomas Heise

Thomas Heise, born in 1955 in Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic. After school he trained as a printer and began to work as an assistant director at the DEFA – Studio for Feature Films in Potsdam Babelsberg in 1975. Between 1978 and 1983 Heise studied at the Academy of Film & Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg (HFF/B). Since 1983 he has worked as a free-lance writer and director in the areas of theatre, audio drama and documentary. Between 1987 and 1990 Heise acquired his MA at the Berlin Academy of Fine Art. He was a member of the Berlin Ensemble until 1997, where acted as contributing director for a number of productions. Since the beginning of the 1990s Heise’s documentaries have attracted national and international attention. Since 2007 he is teaching as a Professor for Film and Media Art at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.