we go both beloved with much of the unique designs of the city subway stations. and we meet a photographer whose pictures of birds show flights as you've never seen before. we begin in san francisco where the largest festival of german language film outside europe is currently taking place for seven days but beyond shows feature films and documentaries from germany austria and switzerland it started back in one thousand nine hundred ninety six it's now in its twenty third year and it's become an absolute must for movie fans interested in europeans. probably at the center of the hippie movement to the gateway to silicon valley in san francisco the old world meets the new high tech meets tradition it's a multicultural metropolis with residents who come from all around the world

a good place for a festival outside mainstream hollywood i come to the rescue also it's about two thousand and eight. every year we get to see different films that we would never ever ever see. and this man is the guest of honor at berlin and beyond to be animated winner of the festival spotlight award he's no hollywood hero rather a character actor whose game comes status in germany with quirky roles thank you so much later just when the automator. in his recent hit twenty five kilometers per hour he costars with the last idea as brothers who realize a teenage dream together traveling across germany on their mopeds on the way they greet years of a strange bent and conflict. it's. clear with.

your kids who are easy rider at a snail's pace. i. hear in america most people won't watch a film in a foreign language with subtitles which is too bad because i do think that our movie tells a universal story about missed chances in life and about living in and enjoying the moment the strong. moment i wouldn't say this is a purely german story but you do get to know about germany through it among them talk. snuffling. these made in germany rarely find their way into american movie theaters u.s. audiences tend to prefer historical topics such as the third rash for the former east germany. but also the festival director so full on soar and wants to offer his audience more. we don't want to lower the types of

rule that you try to bring together or a mixture of grade seven that are a survey of the movement to be of the cinema landscapes of trouble speaking countries to film cloud whispers a debut for its director mixes comedy and drama. and. the serious topic of dimentia told with a light and poetic touch. is neither good nor evil. it. director casting poto wanted to get away from typically german intellectualizing because we couldn't break out so much more from formulaic predictable storytelling and be more experimental and dare to try different things on female as often. as i and.

i'm joined by my colleague margaret kruger i want to go to see that twenty five because it is. first of all why does german film need promoting in america well last year only eighteen german films made it into american cinema that's not many and many people went to see them either having great success as far as and they also have something in common they are all based on stories from german history and this is the same this year at the berlin and beyond film festival for example we have some films for you three days in cuba about the german actress roni schneider. before her tragic death and we have. another fit them on this photo it's the story of

a songwriter in companies germany who also had a double life and worked as an informer for that he's german secret police and the silent revolution also a piece from east germany but it takes place in the one hundred fifty s. and it's about. the communist system and all those. are based on true stories. and these are the topics america really interested in when it comes to german films they stand for cinema. more than any other i think and i noticed. looking on the website lot of the films that are children's films why is five yeah absolutely this seems to be very special in germany as well . and i'm not talking about the success of those films it's more about how they are produced hollywood disney or picks so for example they are very famous for the

animation films but. movies where all the leading roles are by children are all young people teenagers are really rare to find and this is something. which is different in germany and that we have an example as well one of the films shown at the festival is mountain miracle in an unexpected friendship it's about a girl who runs away from a special clinic in the alps where they are trying to cure house mom we're going to have to leave it there actually mark where they both sound is it very interesting about children's thank you michael thank you michael. we're going underground literally to the subway here so what is artistic or cultural about the ground railway system well i've often stood there by itself waiting for a train i've personally come to notice some of the great architecture than usual design of some of the stations here. the constant search task

the subway station in the district of ima store features pop art inspired architecture it's a stop on the u. seven line which runs through what was west berlin built while the city was divided it was meant to show the rest of west germany and the world what west berlin was capable of doing. also in the u. seven richard wagner plots is done up in bright yellow and dark blue tie like the scenes from wagner's operas and information about them on the wall so. there's dragon slayers it freed and the ride of the valley carries. the facade that is what is special about this station is that its architecture is entertainment the architect are commuters could educate themselves while waiting for the train they could have something to look at and maybe even learn something i think they are the kind of women was the architect who designed most of west berlin

subway stations forty eight of them between one thousand nine hundred sixty six and one nine hundred ninety six putting his stamp on the city one magnificent example is that house and out with an architecture somewhere between art deco and a cathedral. during the years of division some west berlin subway lines crossed through east berlin the trains travelled slowly and without stopping through the really empty stations. to the park station on the u. five line the sober and straightforward it's the only underground station that east germany ever built due to the high costs involved. west berlin had more money which is obvious in stations like polished and so on the use seven lavish tiling a field of flowers under the moon and stars a world of wonder below berlin. off in the other direction up in the sky spanish photographer chubby bow as being an avid bird watcher since childhood

and by photographing the changing formation of flocks of birds using a really fast shutter speed he reveals the hidden beauty of birds in flight. images that resemble a tornado taken over the letter valley in catalonia. they show a flock of airborne volunteers that live south of the peyronie's. they were captured by spanish photographer charlie. mutely for. a fascinating look in the dark that's really beautiful if there were one you go there for them i was there now they're gathering to go into a circle or ocean and they come in there. to capture that motion tell the boat has to take dozens of exposures per second.

plane then three and the third i wasn't trying to take just ordinary pictures of vultures or seen before you know i wanted to show another side of nature's beauty a beauty that's created by patterns of movement so the. results of his work resemble calligraphic artworks that portray birds in flight. these passions are made by cormorants taking off. this is the flight path of a herring gull. and this the motion of full mast and cutters in iceland. the former fashion photographer lives in barcelona he has devoted eighty years to his face or project titled only telegraphy is from the greek words for birds and for writing. his photographs are world wide.

is that the performance of these patterns of always being invisible to us of a perception is limited to the moments of somebody else we see here is a few seconds compressed into a. single image is if you can see those seconds as a single moment. but say windows that's not possible with this technology. think about him was about. to create one image he meticulously cases hundreds of photos on top of one another. in rapid succession following the principle of the krona photograph the process developed in the mid nineteenth century to study motion sequences. individual beds can hardly be identified interviewed pose images . look at the good that is going what's important is the pattern of the motion. so people see a d.n.a. strand a wire a computer graphics and that's what interests me. what do people see when they few

an image like this for the first time. with out of high speed photography condenses time makes the invisible visible. birds must have such good radar always wondered how those shoes flocks never bump into each other those days but they don't do that anyway that's your nature lesson for today hope you enjoyed it more on the website at v.w. dot com last but for now our.

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