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© Foto: loekenfranke / Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke

The film collective loekenfranke has generated the visual world for this year’s Ruhrtriennale – one of many reasons for a retrospective as part of the festival.

About the movie series

Their award-winning documentaries, filmed over long periods, narrate processes of great social upheaval, of consolation and endurance, of disappearance and persistence, of work and home, of a city reinventing itself and fighting to maintain a great love. The film collective loekenfranke has generated the visual world for this year’s Ruhrtriennale – one of many reasons for a retrospective as part of the festival.

Every Saturday from 12 August 2023 to 24 September 2023 (except 09.09.2023) – with introductions and post-film discussions.

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Ruhrtriennale 2023 – Trailer: Retrospektive loekenfranke

Movies

UND VOR MIR DIE STERNE… – DAS LEBEN DER SCHLAGERSÄNGERIN RENATE KERN (Germany 1998, 90 mins)

A slice of German reality and the solace offered by popular songs.
Sat 12 August 5 pm
Introduction: Judith Gerstenberg

HERR SCHMIDT UND HERR FRIEDRICH (Germany 2001, 72 mins)

A relationship, a journey into Germany’s past and life in the German provinces.
Sat 19 August  5 pm
Introduction: Barbara Frey

LOSERS AND WINNERS – ARBEIT GEHÖRT ZUM LEBEN (Germany 2006,100 mins)

A story of economic globalisation. 400 Chinese workers dismantle the Kaiserstuhl coking works in Dortmund into parts and ship them to their homeland.
Sat 26 August 5 pm
Introduction: Mischa Leinkauf

ARBEIT HEIMAT OPEL (Germany 2012, 90 mins)

A portrait of six apprentices at the Opel works in Bochum, the lives they dream of and their worries at the beginning of a working life whose future is uncertain.
Sat 2 September 5 pm
Introduction: Mats Staub

GÖTTLICHE LAGE – EINE STADT ERFINDET SICH NEU (Germany 2014, 104 mins)

A new suburb is being built on the site of a former steelworks in Dortmund. Its centrepiece is an artificial lake – the Phönixsee. About the transformation from an industrial society to one based on leisure. 
Sat 16 September 5pm
Introduction: Aljoscha Begrich

WE ARE ALL DETROIT (Germany 2021, 119 mins)

The search for a new identity after the industrial age has ended.
Sat 23 September 5 pm
Followed by a talk with loekenfranke

Dates and tickets

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