The film shows the work of the 88 years old dancer Trudi Schoop with long term patients of a psychiatric clinic. She shares their world for 3 weeks and encourages them to express their emotions and their peculiarity in mouvements: A world of hiding and turning out appears, a world of laughter and sadness.
  Script / Director:  Claudia Willke
  Camera:  Gisela Tuchtenhagen
  Sound Recordist:  Claudia Willke
  Montage:  Gudrun Steinbrück
  Prod. Manager:  Sabine Friedrichs
  Sound Mixer:  Stefan Konken
  Produced by:  Willke Film
      © 1991
American Dance Therapy Association
Trudi Schoop Archive
Bites of Trudi Schoops Philosophy
     
  design:  
  Judith Adam  
  java script:  
  Jutta Wohl  
  Kristin Baitis  
  html:  
  Stephanie Schütt  
    Claudia Willke
    Director and Producer
    M.A. in literature and political science (Tübingen)
M.A. in film studies (Hamburg)
section: documentary

    Willke Film
    founded in 1987 in Hamburg
specialises in the development, realization
and production of short and full-length
creative documentaries
focuses on portraits and other documentaries
in the field of the arts, music, philosophy and
society
collaborates with TV-channels, film funds,
international co-producers and distributors
has production experience in Europe, Africa,
Japan and Northern America

    Selection of realized productions:
  1991: Come Dance with Me
    80 min., 16mm
1st prize for a documentary at the International
Dance Screen Frankfurt 1991
Jury Award at the Leipzig Documentary
Festival, 1991
Ecumenical Award at the Leipzig Documentary
Festival, 1991
Women's Association Award, International
Documentary Festival, St. Petersburg, 1993

  1992: The Conquest of Emptiness
    45 min., 16mm
rated "especially worthy" by the German Board
of Film Censors shown at several international
festivals in Germany, Switzerland, USA

  96/97: Enjoy Your Symptom
    52 min., Beta SP
shown at international festivals in
Germany, Slovenia

  1998: Have You Seen The Moon?
    60 min., 16mm/Video
shown at international festivals
in Germany, Japan, Italy

  2000: Nights of Long Shadows
    60 min., Beta SP, 16:9
German-French-Norwegian Co-Production

  2001: Living with The Gods
    58 min., Digi-Beta, 16:9
German-Austrian Co-Production

  2001: Nothing Special
    52 min., Beta SP, 16:9