Herzogenriedbad
a film byRokas Wille
23 min
1.85:1 DCP 4K
5.1 surround sound
unpublished

"Herzogenriedbad" is a semi-documentary film about an public pool in a hot summer. It celebrates public space, leisure, and socializing. In the hot sun, the pools begin to glisten, the meadows and trees glow, and the crowd blurs together as in a fever.

Rokas Wille Author, Director, DP, Editor Adrian Schwartz DP Quirin Thalhammer Steadycam Operator Clara Dietzen Sound Tristan Ludwig Actor: guy who buys fries Pauline Čemeris Color Grading Eric Wehner Sound editing Anton Počtarev russian-german translation
Special thanks to Klaus Schirdewahn, Marco Magin, Marine Hugonnier, Ludger Pfanz, Knut Kuhles, Martin Wille, Regina Heilmann, all workers of the Herzogenriedbad public pool, Mannheim, and all Protagonists of the film

2023

El Médano
An experimental animated film by Rokas Wille.
Datamoshing of pencil drawings with smartphone videos.

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Run through corridors
An experimental 3D animated film by Rokas Wille.

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Lützerath January 2023
A film miniature by Rokas Wille about Lützerath. January 2023.

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2022

lützerath, october 2022
A film miniature by Rokas Wille about Lützerath. October 2022.

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2021

Dive
A one-minute 3D animated film

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2020

"Hope"
Baking with mother yeast during the corona quarantine of 2020. A film by Rokas Wille for the City Museum of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

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2017

Klaus and Achim
A short documentary by Rokas Wille about an older homosexual couple that gives the audience deep and touching insights into their life. The film was awarded second prize at the "Tiefenschärfe" short film festival in 2017.

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