Sieben Himmel

Memoires of a fateful love affair last summer bind together the young online stripper Jenny and the reclusive Johann. While Jenny is spending Christmas with her parents, Johann lies fever-stricken in his cabin on an island. Jenny decides to visit Johann one more time.

"The film is about memory. Henri Bergson calls it 'false memory,' déja-vu, the moment when the present is overtaken, when you are suddenly fully aware of the flow of events. My starting point for Seven Heavens was to try to film a moment of déj`-vu. The creation of an over-present, makes Seven Heavens a dream film about the unconsciousness of desire: a dark, faded, perverted flipside to films about spiritually. For the medieval figure Katharer, there exists an unbridgeable gap of seven heavens between the field of human endeavour and the godly world: a fundamental separation with little or no hope of salvation. This 'fallen world' is what we hoped to portray using visual and acoustic means. It was more about asking questions than supplying answers." (M. Busch)