PRIVATE BATTLES

PRIVATE BATTLES is a documentary about British militaria fan groups
and their “game-based“ reconstruction of war scenes (re-enactment).

The Film is not yet published.
It has been sent to international film festivals.

Genre: Documentary
Running time: 56 min
End of Production: 10/ 2008
Sound: Stereo
Language: Englisch, German with english subtitles
Format: HDV
Screening format: Digi BETA
Directors, Producers, Camera: Heike Gallmeier / Tabea Sternberg
Dramaturgy/ Editorial stuff: Heike Gallmeier / Tabea Sternberg
Editing: Tabea Sternberg
Sound: Christian Schunke
Translation: Stefan Fichtner
Historical Consultant: Gerhard Wolf 

THE ART VERSION OF THE FILM „PRIVATE BATTLES“: “Private Battles – only the past will tell”: Seven Sequences (40 min.) were shown during the the exhibition „History will repeat itself - Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance“ at KunstWerke KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin
1.)    KW Institute of Contemporary Arts Berlin (18.11.07 – 13.01.08)
2.)    Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Warschau Ujazdowski Castle (15.02.08-13.04.08)
3.)    Goethe Institut Hongkong ( Videotage Hongkong) (20.06.-27.07.2008)
Curators: Gabriele Horn for KW and Inke Arns for Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Mit Untersützung von / Supported by
Werkleitz Projektstipendium, Else-Heiliger-Fonds, 25p *cine support GmbH, Andreas Stirl Foto- und Videoproduktion.