Documentary, 85 min, USA 1978
Wednesday, June 27th, 22:00 hrs,
Morris’ first film, about an animal cemetery in California. But the film focuses increasingly on the people
Errol Morris: Detective-Director
„God is love – Backwards It’s Dog“ (Inscription on a grave of a California pet cemetery, in Errol Morris‘ „Gates of Heaven“, 1978)
“If we cannot solve the mysteries of this world, it is our job to at least try and explore them”, said the American documentary director, Errol Morris, once in an interview. Yet the paths to the secrets of the world which Morris follows are twisted. He presents a clerk who is above all attracted to serial killers. A man stores his frozen mother´s head in a secret place or an autistic woman, empathizing with cattle, designs the interior of stables and abattoirs. The filmed cosmos, into which Errol Morris invites his audience is a panorama of human peculiarities. His protagonists are driven by their obsessions right in the middle of everyday American life. The way Morris mixes science, poetry and pure madness is virtuoso. And what begins as a portray of eccentric individuals develops into a sophisticated meditation about the erratic nature of man.
Wednesday, June 27th, 22:00 hrs,
Morris’ first film, about an animal cemetery in California. But the film focuses increasingly on the people
Wednesday, June 27th, 20:00 hrs,
A portrait of a rural community in Florida and its inhabitants. Morris shows seemingly eccentric people who
Thursday, June 21th, 20:00 hrs,
Morris investigated the murder of a policeman that had occurred a year before and got the accused killer
Sunday, June 24th, 22:00 hrs,
Morris’ only feature film, a thriller. A policeman with Navajo descendants, who is new in the district,
Tuesday, June 26th, 22:00 hrs,
The paralyzed physicist Stephen Hawking describes the origins of the universe in his bestseller. Morris gives
Tuesday, June 26th, 20:00 hrs,
A lion tamer, a robot engineer, a gardener who cuts hedges in the shape of animals, and a mole specialist are
Saturday, June 23th, 20:00 hrs,
Fred Leuchter, designer of electric chairs and philanthropist, is hired by Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel to
Friday, June 22th, 22:00 hrs,
ERROL MORRIS' FIRST PERSON I
Thursday, June 21th, 22:00 hrs,
Interviews with Errol Morris, his artistic coworkers, and his heroes (Werner Herzog, Phil Glass etc.), as
Thursday, June 21th, 22:00 hrs,
Herzog had promised Morris that he would eat his own shoe if Morris ever finished “Gates of Heaven.”
Thursday, June 21th, 22:00 hrs,
For Miller, Adidas, VW, etc.