ZUKUNFT@BPHIL: SEVEN DOORS

CATEGORY: 'Zukunft@BPhil', art, Berliner Philharmoniker, education, music, society, transformation
STATUS: in distribution
A Film by Silvia Beck

ZUKUNFT@BPHIL: SEVEN DOORS

The 'Zukunft@Bhil' Education Series

At the start of 2005 ‘Imprisonment of Body and Soul’ is the theme of a project for jailbirds serving medium-term sentences in the jail Plötzensee.
Runtime: 22 min.
| Recording format: Digital Beta
Audio format: Stereo
| Picture ratio: 16:9, 4:3 letterbox
Cast

Nigel Osbourne, Jocelyn B. Smith, Stephen Plaice, Stephan Langridge, Eckard Wragge and a group of jailbirds from JVA Plötzensee

Team

script: Silvia Beck
directed by: Silvia Beck
camera: Holger Braune
sound: Robert Sandow
montage: Dirk Grau
original music by: Béla Bartók      

producer: Uwe Dierks
in co-operation with 'Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker'

World distribution
BOOMTOWNMEDIA INTERNATIONAL
Synopsis

The 'Zukunft@Bhil' Education Series

SEVEN DOORS
... in the jail Plötzensee

For a week at the start of 2005, musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and artists of other persuasions are working intensively as a team with a group of jailbirds. The theme is 'Imprisonment of Body and Soul', and the aim is to create a parallel to Béla Bartók’s gloomy tale 'King Bluebeard’s Castle'

Béla Bartók’s opera supplies the starting point: a visitor enters a castle with seven locked doors, behind each of which is to be found something new and surprising. But unlike in the opera the seven doors have been made by the jailbirds themselves, and each of them leads to a new feasible version of freedom. The question is: Are the doors part of the jail or part of the jailbirds’ outlook?

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