Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl
Fury is a Feeling Too
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl | Fury is a Feeling Too by Cynthia Beatt
DEU 1983, Forum Expanded
© Cynthia Beatt
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl | Fury is a Feeling Too by Cynthia Beatt
DEU 1983, Forum Expanded
© Cynthia Beatt
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl | Fury is a Feeling Too by Cynthia Beatt
DEU 1983, Forum Expanded
© Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl | Fury is a Feeling Too by Cynthia Beatt
DEU 1983, Forum Expanded
© Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt raises questions and provokes reflection on a range of issues to do with language and culture, politics and history. Her film is a personal and cathartic confrontation with being a foreigner in Berlin, burdened by the weight of its history, during the 1970s and ‘80s. Filmed in the area around Potsdamer Platz, the torn-up area right next to the Wall where post-war buildings grew out of the bomb craters, the film paints the picture of the loss of an architectural text whose destruction also meant the disappearance of a cultural context. Shrapnel-pitted facades alternate with rooms where social altercations about Germans scarred by their history are staged. The somber elegiac music of Maurice Weddington underscores the discordant character of this unsentimental, accusing film.
With
- Heinz Emigholz
- Cynthia Beatt
- Margaret DeWys
- Fritz Mikesch
- Astrid Heibach
- Ed Cantu
- Ellen El Malki
- Daniel Lengyel
- Rita Lengyel
- Gustav Hámos
- Milena Gregor
Crew
| Written and Directed by | Cynthia Beatt |
| Cinematography | Elfi Mikesch, Ebba Jahn, Cynthia Beatt |
| Editing | Dörte Völz |
| Music | Maurice Weddington |
| Sound | Margit Eschenbach |
| Production Design | Cynthia Beatt |
| Casting | Cynthia Beatt |
| Production Manager | Hildegard Westbeld, Marianne Gassner |
| Producer | Cynthia Beatt Heartbeatt Pictures GmbH |
| Commissioned by | SFB, Redaktion: Jürgen Tomm |
| Digital Restoration | Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst |
World Sales
Heartbeatt Pictures GmbH
Produced by
Heartbeatt Pictures GmbH
Ulrich Ziemons, Cynthia Beatt, Anselm Franke
The curator with the director and the Head of the Department of Visual Arts and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt before the screening.
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl · Forum Expanded · Open Air Kino HKW · Jun 11, 2021
Cynthia Beatt, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
The director talking about the film with the head of the programme.
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl · Forum Expanded · Open Air Kino HKW · Jun 11, 2021
Cynthia Beatt
The director of one of the short films from the programme.
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl · Forum Expanded · Open Air Kino HKW · Jun 11, 2021
Cynthia Beatt, Ivar Van Bekkum, Kerstin Schroedinger, Esther Van Bekkum, Emily Wardill
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl | Fury is a Feeling Too
Forum Expanded · Berlinale Meets | Interview · Feb 22, 2021
Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt grew up in Jamaica and the Fiji Islands. She studied at Bath Academy of Art and then moved into film. After working with 24 Frames in London, she travelled for a year through the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and then moved to Berlin. In the 1970s and 80s she worked with the Arsenal and the InternationalForum of New Cinema, programmed major retrospectives of Roberto Rossellini, Fritz Lang, Jean Rouch, Powell and Pressburger, Max Opühls. She began directing films in 1979. Fury is a Feeling Too had its world premiere at the Forum in 1984.
Filmography
1980 Beschreibung einer Insel (Study of an Island); 200 min. 1983 Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl (Fury is a Feeling too); 25 min., Forum 1984 1986 Dakui Gau Trio · Namosi 1988 Cycling the Frame; 27 min. 1991 The Party – Nature Morte; 89 min., Forum 1992 2009 The Invisible Frame; 60 min. 2014 A House in Berlin; 96 min.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021