Believe in Miracles
Britta Wandaogo
»My first video camera 1993. Dirk and I are sitting on a bed filming each other. I say to him: ›I’m 27 years old and absolutely whacked but at least I’m going to lift my little brother’s spirits one more time!‹ Whatever my intention was then, there’ve since been numerous situations when I have filmed us together. Capturing our life on camera every so often has been both protection and memory. Dirk died and our family broke up – yet Dirk was my family! We shared a certain closeness, a sense of humour that perhaps can only exist between brother and sister. His heroin addiction was a side phenomenon which we both had to live with, always borne by the belief that one day he might get over it. In the summer of 2010, I began to open some of the boxes with all the cassettes, raw material and short private scenes that I had previously never watched. Everything was brought back to life.«
– Britta Wandaogo
»The material that Britta Wandaogo had at her disposal consists of hours and hours of recordings which she – more or less off the cuff – taped in her brother’s company. Showing him high or asleep, waking up, charming, repeatedly charming, and then really high, incoherent and in despair. Ms Wandaogo sometimes in the picture, being filmed by him, classified as his co-dependent, belittled and loved, exploited and placed on a pedestal. Material that flinches with tension.«
– Michael Sennhauser, Radio DRS2
In this documentary film, as in most of her work, Ms Wandaogo radically turns the private sphere inside out.
Britta Wandaogo
Die 1965 in Unna geborene Dokumentarfilmerin Britta Wandaogo ist Kommunikationsdesignerin. Sie studierte von 1986 bis 1992 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal. 1994 entstand mit Den Affen töten ihr erster Dokumentarfilm – ebenfalls über ihren Bruder. An der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln erwarb sie 1998 ein weiteres Diplom im Fach Audiovisuelle Medien. 2000 gründete sie mit wandaogo productions ihre eigene Produktionsfirma. 2003 wurde sie Gründungsmitglied des Dokumentarfilmnetzwerks LaDOC. Ihr vielfach ausgezeichnetes Werk ergänzen Musikvideos, Installationen und audiovisuelle Ausstellungsbeiträge. Nach Lehraufträgen an der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf in den Fachbereichen Design und Dokumentarfilm ist Britta Wandaogo dort seit 2010 Professorin für Audiovisuelle Medien.
Filme von Britta Wandaogo (Auswahl)
Ohne mein viertes Kind 2009 | Halbschwarz geht nicht 2009 | 1200 brutto 2007 | Die Krokodile der Familie Wandaogo 2003 | Liebe Weiss Schwarz 2003 | Liebe Schwarz Weiss 2001 | Bifou Biga 1998 | Une Image d’Ambition 1997 | Eigentlich geht’s ja um nichts 1996 | With a Big Monster 1995 | Den Affen töten 1994