Country: Germany
Year: 2011
Duration: 100'
The northern part of the province of Salta, in the district of Orán, Argentina. The village of Tinkunaku is home to the ancient native community of the Kollas, who live in a completely different dimension with respect to modern life. They are in complete synchrony with nature, as they follow its cycles and recurrences, and the daily life of the men and women is marked by work and rituals. Viviano and Ramona follow their seasonal journey from the valley to the village of Santa Cruz, located at 3,000 meters above sea level, where they spend the summer before the autumn rains begin. “Solar System is a film about disappearance. It is a portrait of daily life in the indigenous community of the Kollas in Tinkunaku. The film shows a meeting without knowing the language of the other, a story of getting to know and seeing each other without words. Non-verbally, exclusively through images the film approaches the people of the small indigenous Kolla community. Living with the Kollas, in between the old rites and the irruptive modernity, in the grandiose landscape of Yunga and Quechua, the film narrates their day-to-day disappearence.”
Biography
film director
Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise (Berlin, Germany, 1955) started as assistant director at the DEFA Studio in 1975 and attended the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1983 he has worked as writer and director in the areas of theatre and documentary. Until the end of the German Democratic Republic all his documentary were either blocked, destroyed or confiscated. In 1990 he acquired his MA at the Berlin Academy of Fine Art. He was a member of the Berlin Ensemble until 1997. He was teaching at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2007 to 2013. Since 2013 he is working at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2018 he is the director of the Film and Media Arts section at the Academy of Arts Berlin-Brandenburg.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film (Why a Film About these People, cm, doc., 1980), Das Haus (The House, doc., 1984), Volkspolizei (People’s Police, doc., 1985), Eisenzeit (Iron Age, doc., 1991), Barluschke (doc., 1997) Meine Kneipe (My Local, doc., 2000), Der Ausländer (The Foreigner, cm, doc., 2004), Kinder. Wie die Zeit Vergeht (Children. As Time Flies, doc., 2007), Die Lage (Condition, doc., 2012), Staedtebewohner (doc., 2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer
Thomas Heise
fotografia/cinematography
Robert Nickolaus, Jutta Tränkle, René Frölke
montaggio/film editing
Trevor Hall
musica/music
Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky
suono/sound
René Frölke, Robert Nickolaus, Thomas Heise
vendita all’estero/world sales
Deckert Distribution
