Das schlafende MÄdchen (The Sleeping Girl)
Rainer Kirberg | D 2011 | 105 min. 
Material: HDCam
Format: DigiBeta
Original language: German
Script: Rainer Kirberg
Camera: Birgit Möller
Editing: Ansgar Wacker
Sound: Manja Ebert
With Jakob Diehl, Natalie Krane, Christoph Bach
Production: Entropie Film, Jucca Film, Moitorpop, Joroni Film, bbooksz_av
Print/Sales: Arsenal Institut
Düsseldorf, beginning of the seventies. Hans, a young, introverted student of Beuys, meets Ruth, a young homeless woman living in a park. Fascinated by her, he takes Ruth in and makes her the subject of his video work. Ruth quickly settles into the artist scene around Hans, she gets a job as a drawing model at the academy. But Hans is skeptical about her new life, he suspects that Ruth, in her transformation to 'glamour girl', is only trying to get away from herself. For him, she remains the baffling homeless girl that he had secretly fallen in love with, a subject that he doesn't want to share with anyone. Jealous of his best friend Philipp, he locks Ruth up in his studio so he can – so he thinks – look into her secrets in the test tube of art. Art and life become inextricably intertwined. – Berlinale
Rainer Kirberg, born 1954, studied at the Kunstakademie Düssel- dorf. Active as artist, filmmaker, and author in the film and televi- sion industry. Four feature films, including the cult film The Last Revenge, made in 1980. Since 1978 his artistic works (film, installations, performance) have been shown in institutions like the Vienna Secession and the Kunst Werke in Berlin. Music videos in the German and international independent music scene.
Films: Die letzte Rache 1982 | Grottenolm 1985 | Schatten im Zenit 1989 | Das schlafende Mädchen 2011