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In 2023 renowned documentary maker Thomas Heise begins a film on Berlin’s Schönhauser Allee, the road he lived on for decades. After his unexpected death, his longtime creative companions continue the work. Exclusive material from his archives reveals lived history, a great thinker and the missing piece to Heise's opus magnum <a href="heimat-is-a-space-in-time">HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

In 2023 renowned documentary maker Thomas Heise begins a film on Berlin’s Schönhauser Allee, the road he lived on for decades. After his unexpected death, his team continues the work. 

Born in 1953 in Berlin, he has worked since 1981 as a DOP for cinema, documentary films, feature films, and television films. In addition, he works as a co-director for documentaries. He studied camera at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in the GDR in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Until 1990, he worked as a DOP at the DEFA studio for feature films. Since 1992, he has worked worldwide as a freelance DOP.&nbsp;&nbsp;He taught cinematography from 2007 to 2019 at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“. From 2006 to 2024, he worked at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, focusing on documentary cinematography. Besides his work as a DOP, he is a curator for photographic exhibitions. His films received multiple awards, including the German Film Award, the German Documentary Award, the Grand Prix at FID Marseille, and the Caligari Film Prize. They premiered at the Berlinale, FID Marseille, DOK Leipzig, and Visions du Réel in Nyon.&nbsp;&nbsp;His most important works with Thomas Heise were Material, Mein Bruder. We’ll meet again, Vaterland, Neustadt. Stau - Der Stand der Dinge, Barluschke, Volkspolizei 1985, Das Haus 1984, and Erfinder '82.

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Chris Wright was born in the Northern English town of Bolton, studied in Cambridge and then at film school in Babelsberg. Since the mid-90s, he’s lived in Berlin, working as an editor and documentary-maker.&nbsp;&nbsp;His recent credits include Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden (Sundance, Berlinale Forum 2021) and Thomas Heise’s Heimat is a Space in Time (Berlinale 2019, awards worldwide), which won him a nomination for the VG Bildkunst Editing Award. In 2017 he won the German Camera Prize in the category best feature-length editing for Susanne Binninger’s Fighter. In 2024 he was nominated for the German Television Prize, together with Janine Dauterich, for their work on the Netflix series Till Murder Do Us Part.&nbsp;&nbsp;He teaches the documentary course at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) and works as editing consultant on documentaries and fiction films. In 2020 he joined the tutor team of dok incubator.

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