Showcasing Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright

Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright, who were both born in 1972 and both graduated from the HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg, have enriched contemporary German documentary cinema over the past 12 years with a very distinct version of their own. Their films, with their particular aesthetics, are characterized by a special form of camera work, narrative methods and editing as well as a largely associative, fragmentary and sketchy structure. Kolbe and Wright make films that have abandoned supposedly clear structures. For each film, they try to find a new form in an open process that is appropriate to the protagonists and the subject. Their films about young people in a home or about the inhabitants of a prefabricated apartment, as well as their GDR home-movie compilation all take different approaches, making them a reflection on the different parameters of documentary work.

Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright's four films have been in arsenal distribution's program since 2011, giving us the occasion to showcase them for the first time and to hold talks with the filmmakers and audience members.