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An unflinching portrait of Jürgen Baldiga, the groundbreaking German photographer and AIDS activist.
“Prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics and the mentally ill. That’s where I feel at home. That’s the world that needs to be captured.” In 1979, 19-year old Jürgen Baldiga moves to Berlin and decides to become an artist. Faced with certain death from HIV infection, he discovers photography as his medium.
Between despair, longing, rebellion and an irrepressible will to survive, Baldiga becomes a chronicler of the queer West Berlin subculture of the ’80s and early ’90s and proves his unique talent as a sensitive and provocative photographic artist.
Markus Stein
Ringo Rösener
Olaf Jacobs
Brigitte Schmidle
Florian Lampersberger
Manuela Schininá
Assistant Director: Jonas Erler; Graphics: Sebastian Peuker
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF explores the transgender and non-binary body in transition through the 19th century photographic process, mordançage. The mordançage, using its tremendous chemical pressure, alters the silver gelatine prints, causing them to undergo slow, gradual transformation. The tissue of the body and of the print breaks and a new life, new forms are born.
Mia Felić
Lucija Mrzljak, Mia Felić
Lucija Mrzljak
1h 30m
German
Germany
Berlinale, 2024
Krakow Film Festival, 2024
DocAviv Film Festival, 2024
Wheelchair-accessible
Closed Captioning
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