MADONNENWERK
is an international collective that researches, explores, and delves into various topics and landscapes. We go underground and follow the course of the planets. History, geology, society, and the body are some of the elements of our investigation. We produce vertical films in which the laws of space and time are overturned and all laws are abandoned. We work patiently and quickly, over a long period of time, in a collective of people with whom we grow together. We devote ourselves to the undead – the witnesses and ghosts of history. We love magic, epic imagery, raw emotion, and rebellion. The heroes in our stories fight against systems, can talk to animals, angels, and trees, and search for their own truth. We produce films in the heart of the Harz Mountains in eastern Germany for a cinema that tells of a world where war and memory, miracles and stories burst onto the cinema.
TRILOGY EROSION
The Earth that connects the three parts. It is the erosion of geological, political, and social space. It is the memory of a landscape that has been the source of violence. It is the silence. The heavy sky. The Golden Meadow. It is the gateway to the Harz Mountains. The sound of the Harzquerbahn railway and the fragmented landscape. It is the town’s children, who are caught up in the nightmares of a war that has never ended. These children grow older with their fears, dreams, and desires. A landscape that is expanding. Later, they create their own planet, from which they look down upon Earth and themselves. This trilogy explores a world in which vertical ground reaches deep into bodies that have archived everything and continue to pass it on. Perhaps this trilogy is also a love story that still lies in the shadow of a wounded history – a declaration of love to a country and its people that exists only in Grimm’s fairy tales and in a reality that makes the East the heart of a narrative that is beginning to unfold: ZONE, THE NIGHT IS DARKER AND COLDER THAN THE DAY, and DUMP.
