The African Twintowers (2007)
By Christoph Schlingensief
Duration: 29 minutes Director Christoph Schlingensief Screenplay Christoph Schlingensief Directors of Photography Meika Dresenkamp, Patrick Waldmann Editor Robert Kummer Production Design Aino Laberenz Cast Irm Hermann, Robert Stadlober, Klaus-Peter Beyer, Karin Witt, Norbert Losch, Dirk Rohde, Patti Smith Producer Frieder Schlaich Original Version German, English Shooting Dates Luederitz/Namibia, October 2005 Christoph Schlingensief traveled to south-west Africa to the town of Luederitz in Namibia to shoot The African Twintowers – his first feature film in eight years. Some of the shooting was done in the corrugate-iron "Area 7" township on the edge of Luederitz where Schlingensief had a so-called animatograph constructed to pursue his experimentation in "three-dimensional cinema" and "social sculpture" which began with his staging of Wagner's Parsifal in Bayreuth in 2004. Since then, he has been developing a series of installations which not only dispel with traditional concepts of theater but also leave behind the familar actionist theater. For Schlingensief, the animatograph's revolving stage is "like a living organism on which the spectator travels, lives and becomes a part…
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