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Wohnhaft Erdgeschoß

Resident Ground Floor
Jan Soldat
Austria, Germany 2020
48 min
V'20

For years now, documentary filmmaker Jan Soldat has been making films that push the boundaries of conventional notions of human sexuality and behavior. He does this with a style and approach reminiscent of Thomas Heise, empathetic yet direct. RESIDENT GROUND FLOOR, his latest work, is a portrait of Heiko, a former sheet metal worker from the GDR (German Democratic Republic) who has been unemployed and psychologically adrift since the end of German communism. Queer, bitter, sometimes violent, and aggressively misanthropic, Heiko tells the story of his childhood. Abused by his father, left unprotected by his mother, Heiko was raised by loving grandparents whose passing he still actively mourns. Eventually, he leaves his safe haven in Berlin to revisit the places where he grew up. Oh, and Heiko is deeply devoted to autoerotic water sports. “I like piss,” he explains. Soldat’s film suggests a connection between communism and perversion: perhaps a fixation on the abject, or simply a refusal to acknowledge a social order that “liberated” him while throwing him away. (Michael Sicinski)

In the presence of Jan Soldat.
With EXPLAINING THE LAW TO KWAME

Jan Soldat: GELIEBT (2010, K), ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG (2012, K), CRAZY DENNIS TIGER (2012, K), EIN WOCHENENDE IN DEUTSCHLAND (2012, K), DER UNFERTIGE (2013), PRISON SYSTEM 4614 (2015), COMING OF AGE (2016, K), PROTOKOLLE (2017, K), MENSCH CHRISTIAN, WIR DREH’N ‘NEN PORNO (2020, K), ERWIN (2020, K), ERWARTUNGEN (2020, K)

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  • Jan Soldat
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