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New York Memories
- Runtime:
- 89 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2010
- Country:
- Deutschland
- Director:
- Cast:
- Claudia Steinberg
Anna Steegmann
Lucie Pohl
Marie Pohl
Michael Bloomberg
Eva Love
Judith Malina
Barbara Epler
Klaus Pohl
Roman Pitio
Jeff Preiss
Isaac Preiss
Rebecca Quaytman
Oliver Sechting - Production Company:
- Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Documentary Film
Twenty years ago, the Berlinale’s Panorama section screened Rosa von Praunheim’s ÜBERLEBEN IN NEW YORK - SURVIVAL IN NEW YORK. The film revolved around Claudia, Anna and Uli, who came to New York at the beginning of the eighties; they were all trying gain a foothold in a city that, at the time, was a much tougher place to live in than it is today. Now, twenty years on, Rosa von Praunheim returns to his protagonists in his new film.
Rosa von Praunheim: “Twenty years after my most successful theatrical work, ÜBERLEBEN IN NEW YORK, I decided to seek out the film’s protagonists, Anna and Claudia. I was surprised to discover what had become of them. At the same time, I also began retracing my own steps in New York all those years ago; looking for images in my old films of the rambunctious seventies with its wild sex parties, riotous demonstrations and eccentric Warhol superstars.
I remembered the tragic eighties and the angry struggle against Aids, which claimed the lives of many of my friends. In the hopeful nineties I filmed the outcry of transsexuals who were no longer prepared to accept being raped and murdered. At the same time, New York’s mayor, Giuliani, began ‘cleansing’ the city. Sex clubs were closed, and artists and the homeless were driven out. Manhattan got richer – but a bit boring. After an absence of more than ten years, I returned to New York with my camera in the spring of 2009. I wanted to know what had happened to my favourite city – the place where I once spent the happiest times of my life.”
BIOGRAFIE Rosa von Praunheim
Born in Riga, in 1942. He studied at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main and at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1967, von Praunheim directed his first short films. He made his cinema breakthrough in 1971 with the documentary Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt.
FILMOGRAFIE Rosa von Praunheim (selection)
2017 Überleben in Neukölln
2016 Welcome All Sexes: 30 Jahre Teddy Awards
2015 Härte
2013 Mario Wirz
2011 Mondo Lux - Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter
2011 Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo
2011 König des Comics
2010 New York Memories
2007 Tote Schwule – lebende Lesben
2004 Umsonst gelebt - Walter Schwarze
2004 Männer Helden und schwule Nazis
1990 Positiv
1989 Schweigen = Tod
1971 Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt
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