preshorts
March 15th 2025 6 p.m. FORUM Offenburg, Haal 8
Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz
Students of the HS Offenburg can get in free of charge if they present their Oskar, everyone else pays €5.00. Tickets are available directly from the Forum.
West Berlin, 1979. Jürgen Baldiga, son of a miner from Essen, has just arrived in the city and decides to become an artist. Working as a rent boy and cook, he writes poems and a diary. After learning that he has HIV in 1984, he discovers photography. He intends his images to stop time and capture reality. They reveal his friends and lovers, wild sex, life on the street and the camp queens from the SchwuZ gay club who become his adopted family. Oscillating between despair and desire, rebellion and the will to survive, Baldiga becomes a chronicler of the queer West Berlin subculture in the face of his own imminent demise. When he died at the age of 34 in 1993, he left behind thousands of photographs and forty diaries – a unique artistic legacy.
Using poetic diary excerpts, stark images and memories from companions, Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz depicts not only a ground-breaking photographer but also an AIDS activist and committed fighter against the stigmatisation of gay people’s lives.
Past Events
Artificial intelligence and creativity
How AI influences people, media and companies.
Wednesday, 10.04., 3 pm, Theater 8
Black Forest Innovation & Shorts Film Festival
We will start the second day of the festival, Wednesday, April 10 at 3 pm, with a look at the dynamic development of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching effects on the world of work and media.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) may have a profound impact on creative processes, structures in companies and the way content is created and distributed. Using best practices, we will show what is currently possible, how the technologies are being used and shed light on the regulations that frame these innovations.
At the same time, we will discuss with the speakers and the audience what opportunities and risks this development entails.
Hans und rumana
Feature Film by Zaid Ghasib
In the presence of the filmmakers followed by a discussion
Friday, April 12, 4 pm – Theater 8
While two strangers who fell in love with each other struggle with the uncertainty of their relationship, a little girl murders another, a pianist breaks up with his band to pray in front of his audience and someone sees this as an opportunity to get closer to his old love.
The filmmaker will be available for a discussion with the audience after the film.