Herzogenriedbad

a film by Rokas 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unpublished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.

Lützerath was a small village near Cologne that was destroyed and excavated for lignite mining in early 2023. Before that, it had been occupied for years – after most of the residents had already been resettled – by activists who wanted to prevent lignite mining under Lützerath. The amount of coal was as big, that several studies had calculated, it would exceed Germany's CO2 budget under the Paris Climate Agreement if burned. Lützerath was a place of collective resistance against the rule of economig growth and competition between states, against the rule of the market and capital. A place where the good life and a humane society were already beginning to shine through. This film miniature shows Lützerath a few days after the eviction. Nothing remains of the lively place; where tree houses and a kitchen stood not long ago, there is now a flat wasteland. A thin layer of snow covers everything. The police does not let us in. We remember their orgy of violence during the eviction. The ground and sky are white and empty.

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2022

lützerath, october 2022

A film miniature by Rokas Wille about Lützerath. October 2022.

Lützerath was a small village near Cologne that was destroyed and excavated for lignite mining in early 2023. Before that, it had been occupied for years – after most of the residents had already been resettled – by activists who wanted to prevent lignite mining under Lützerath. The amount of coal was as big, that several studies had calculated, it would exceed Germany's CO2 budget under the Paris Climate Agreement if burned. Lützerath was a place of collective resistance against the rule of economig growth and competition between states, against the rule of the market and capital. A place where the good life and a humane society were already beginning to shine through. This film miniature captures a few quiet moments in this place. Sunny autumn days, a few months before the eviction.

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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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