Education

Klaus Mueller: FILMOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS, 1988-Present

Dr. Klaus Mueller is an independent filmmaker whose work explores the long-term repercussions of the Holocaust on LGBT history. Throughout his career, he has examined how personal testimony shapes historical understanding and collective memory, focusing on individuals whose experiences have often been marginalized or excluded from public narratives. A central thread in Mueller’s work is the recording and interpretation of personal testimony. Across museums, film projects, and international initiatives, he has consistently worked with individual life narratives as a means of understanding historical violence and its aftermath. Rooted in oral history practice, this approach has informed his work across Holocaust documentation, LGBT history, and contemporary human rights contexts. Alongside his filmmaking, he has taught and written about film history.

Selected Film and Documentary Projects

• Mueller was initiator, research director, and associate producer of the award-winning documentary PARAGRAPH 175 (2000) which profiles gay survivors of Nazi persecution. Mueller has worked with gay survivors since the early 1990s.

• He was assistant director and assistant producer of the Dutch documentary BUT I WAS A GIRL (1999) which is based on his extensive 1994 oral history interview with lesbian Dutch resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante in Santa Fe, New Mexico. See 2021 USHMM Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution on Frieda Belinfante.

• In 1998, Mueller co-produced and directed JUST HAPPY THE WAY I AM on LGBT Youth and their experience of homophobia and fascism.

• In 2017 Mueller directed FAMILY IS…? A GLOBAL CONVERSATION, which explores the complexities of LGBT lives within their families of birth, their families of choice and the families they raise.

• In 2018, he was interviewed by Iranian director Maziar Bahari in the documentary 82 NAMES: SYRIA, PLEASE DON’T FORGET US. See also interview film.

• As a historian and adviser, Mueller worked with Eurovision Song Contest winner Duncan Laurence in 2022 on a documentary about the LGBT+ COMMUNITY DURING WWII.

• In 2022, he was interviewed about his work as an oral historian for a series of video lectures on INTERVIEWING GAY SURVIVORS, produced by “Hear Our Voices”, a project of Carleton University, Canada.

• Between 2022-2024, Mueller served as the historical and dramaturgical consultant on the 2023 NETFLIX Documentary ELDORADO: EVERYTHING THE NAZIS HATE. The documentary tells the story of the world’s first highly visible queer community and its destruction under National Socialism.

• In 2023, Mueller was interviewed by Austrian filmmaker Fritz Kalteis for the bio-documentary PERSECUTED LOVE – THE MEN WITH THE PINK TRIANGLE on gay survivor Heinz Heger (Josef Kohout). Mueller helped to preserve Kohout’s original pink triangle and a larger collection of family correspondence relating to Kohout’s incarceration in Flossenbuerg concentration camp through his cooperation with Kohout’s long-term partner. The collection is now accessible at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. See also comment on the significance of Heinz Heger’s memoir.

• In 2023, Mueller collaborated with Iranian director Maziar Bahari on six short films, BERLIN: CITY OF MEMORIALS, in which he explores the history, architecture, and contemporary relevance of Berlin’s memorials on location.

• Based on his early and extensive research on Gottfried von Cramm, including work in the Library of Congress, Mueller was interviewed in 2023 by German director Annette Baumeister for the documentary PLAYING TO SURVIVE: VON CRAMM VS HITLER (2024), which explores the life of one of the twentieth century’s great tennis champions and his relationship with Jewish actor Manasse Herbst in Nazi Germany. See Trailer (2024).

Teaching and Writing about Film

• Mueller taught film and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam (1993-2002), conducted public film programs on gay survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993-1999), and developed and led film seminars at the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and Goethe-Institute Amsterdam (1990-1993). He has written film and cultural criticism for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Homologie, and De Groene Amsterdammer, and has published academic articles and lectures on film and cultural history since 1988.

Production

Playing to Survive: von Cramm vs. Hitler (Interview; 2024)

Directed by Annette Baumeister, this powerful documentary rescues a forgotten queer story from history. It chronicles the life of international tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm (voiced by Pierce Brosnan) and his love for Manasse Herbst, a Jewish man, in the early 1930s, just before Hitler’s rise to power.

In an interview with Baumeister, I shared my extensive research on von Cramm and Herbst, helping to illuminate how their young love transformed into a fight for survival. Through rare archival footage and stunning animation, the film follows their journey and von Cramm’s courageous efforts to help his lover escape Nazi Germany.

Beyond a story of love and resilience, Playing to Survive is also a compelling piece of tennis history. Von Cramm, once ranked number two in the world, saw his career and reputation profoundly damaged by his conviction under Nazi Paragraph 175, which criminalized homosexuality. Even after the war, he remained excluded from the international tennis world, denied full recognition in the sport he loved.

Production

Berlin: City of Memorials (IranWire/USHMM 2023)

Please see link: Berlin: City of Memorials

Berlin is a city of memorials. But this has not always been the case. The post-war years were characterized by heated national debates about how Germany should remember the horror of its past. And these debates continue to this day.

Successive German governments have been either reluctant to create memorials or uncertain about how best to do so – but individuals have led the way. Dr Klaus Mueller, the Representative for Europe at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is keen to emphasise that most memorials have come about as the result of the efforts of a small number of people, who determinedly made the case for its need.

In Germany, the creation of a new memorial has the power to spark a nationwide discussion. These are personal and political questions. How has the country dealt with its responsibility for the murder of European Jews? Has it reckoned with the Nazis’ persecution of suppressed minority groups such as Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses or people with mental and physical disabilities? Post-reunification, what message did the German government want to send to the world about its attitude towards the country’s past? What do memorials mean for victims?

IranWire’s Maziar Bahari visited Berlin to meet with Mueller to make a series of short films as part of the Sardari Project. These films are published on IranWire and associated social media sites in English and Persian. Dr Mueller works as an international consultant for cultural institutions, advising museums, foundations and NGOs, and his research focuses on Holocaust documentation and education, antisemitism, and genocide prevention.

Bahari and Mueller spent several days visiting six different sites of memorial across Berlin to discuss how these memorials came into being and the significance they hold today and potentially for the future.

Production

ELDORADO: EVERYTHING THE NAZIS HATE (Netflix 2023)

A new documentary on queer history – ‘Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate’ – premiered on Netflix globally in June 2023. The film tells the story of the worldwide first LGBT community forming in 1920s Berlin, and of its destruction in Nazi Germany. In the Golden Twenties, the German capital became known for its spirit of a new sexual freedom. There was a sense of collective empowerment, of joyful experimentation with gender identity and expression, of ownership over one’s own life. One hub of the emerging gay, lesbian and trans* scene was the “Eldorado” in Berlin, attracting locals and visitors from abroad alike. For a moment in history, everything seemed possible for queer people. But was it?

As the film’s historical and dramaturgic adviser, I worked closely with director Benjamin Cantu on tracing and reconstructing the lives of individuals who lived through these years. How could we best tell their stories? Eldorado shares this journey into our beginnings. Looking back, it also leaves us with the question how secure queer lives are today, with the backlash we see in many countries.
‘Eldorado’ reached the Netflix Top 10 in eleven countries after its release.

See also this background article: Deep dive into new Netflix documentary

Production

Documentary on LGBT+ PERSECUTION With Eurovision Song Contest Winner DUNCAN LAURENCE (Netherlands 2022)

Eurovision Song Contest winner Duncan Laurence works with Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum Founder and Chair Klaus Mueller to mark the Netherlands’ National Days of Remembrance and Liberation.

A Story Seldom Told: The Long Journey to Freedom for LGBT People

Klaus Mueller and Duncan Laurence pay their respects to those who died at Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp just outside Berlin.

Each year on May 4, the Netherlands commemorates the victims of World War II on National Remembrance Day, and on May 5, celebrate their liberation, reflecting on the value of freedom, democracy, and human rights.

This year, singer-songwriter Duncan Laurence was appointed as the Netherlands’ national “Ambassador of Freedom.” Duncan won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands with his ballad “Arcade”, which grew into a worldwide hit with over 4 billion streams.
For Duncan, it was immediately clear that for this year’s National Remembrance and Liberation Days he wanted to highlight the LGBT* community. “I want attention to be paid to how these people fared in World War II. Unfortunately, it’s still more topical than ever.”

For the short documentary he was invited to make as part of the Ambassadorship, he turned to Founder and Chair of the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum Klaus Mueller. Previously a film history lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, Klaus is a historian and filmmaker who portrayed Dutch and German gay and lesbian survivors in his films Paragraph 175 and But I was a girl.

Klaus invited Duncan to come to his native home and together they undertook an emotional journey from the hopeful beginnings of Berlin’s LGBT community—the first of its kind worldwide—to its destruction by Nazi Germany in concentration camps like Sachsenhausen on the city’s outskirts. Freedom and equality for LGBT people again remained out of reach for decades.
On their journey, Duncan learned from Klaus, who had interviewed survivors from Sachsenhausen, that it was all not as long ago as many like to think: Gay men—survivors of the Nazi camps—were still seen, and treated, as criminals and perverts by postwar German governments. The 1935 Nazi law that criminalized homosexuality was only revised in 1969 and was not finally repealed until 1994.

Klaus admires Duncan’s dedication: “Together, we remember and honor our forgotten LGBT ancestors who started the long journey to freedom. I am very moved by Duncan, both by his courage to undertake this difficult journey and his determination to use his enormous network to connect a young generation to a story seldom told.”
For Duncan, confronting the past indeed connects to messages from some of his queer followers about the dire situation they struggle with. “Sure, you know what happened, but it is really hitting home for me because it still happens. The fact that there are people who still are, even now, not accepted for who they are.”

* LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. We are using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.

Production

PARAGRAPH 175 (Telling Pictures, USA 2000)

“Never. Nobody wanted to hear about it. If you would just mention one of those words… Leave me alone with this stuff. It’s over now and done with.” Gay survivor, 93 years old

“Paragraph 175” is the inspiration of Klaus Mueller /… / [who] had come to feel that as a gay German of postwar vintage, “I did not have a past at all,” and he set out to meet and interview as many of his remaining “gay grandfathers” as he could. (Chip Crews: ‘Paragraph 175’: The Nazis’ Victims of Shame, In: Washington Post, October 19, 2000)

Paragraph 175 documents the Nazi persecution of homosexuals through the words of some of its survivors. Their testimonies – filmed for the first time – give insight in what for decades has been ignored or silenced. The Nazis arrested app. 100,000 men as homosexuals. Half of them were sentenced to prison of which an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 were incarcerated in concentration camps. Camp inmates sentenced under the anti-gay Nazi law ‘Paragraph 175’ were marked with a pink triangle. The German government never paid restitutions to the gay victims of the Nazi regime. In the late 1960’s, the pink triangle was reinterpreted by the gay and lesbian community as a symbol of gay pride. But we never knew the individual men who were forced to wear it in the camps. No names, no faces – just an empty memory. Now we learn to know some of them. Their stories are complex and marked by the horror of the camps and their humiliation after 1945, but also by their resilience, anger and strength.

PROJECT HISTORY
Having worked since the early 1990’s on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, I came into contact with a small number of gay survivors and asked them if they would be willing to share their story with me. While they were hesitant in the beginning, we developed a bond of trust and I was able to learn about their ordeal before and after 1945 in their own words. Gay survivors have never received legal recognition or support. Their voices are unique and part of our complex, yet largely undocumented history. Based on my conversations with gay survivors, I developed the idea for a documentary film to safeguard the diverse stories of those few known gay survivors still alive and to document their suffering. For me, it was vital to learn about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals based on the individual voices of survivors and their experiences, instead of just reconstructing this dark chapter through the documents of their perpetrators alone. In January 1997, I reached out and proposed a collaboration to American directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

SEE TRAILER 1

SEE TRAILER 2

MORE INFORMATION ON THE TELLING PICTURE WEBSITE

IMDB summary and IMDb user reviews

CREDITS

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
IDEA / DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH / ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Klaus Mueller
NARRATED BY
Rupert Everett
PRODUCERS
Michael Ehrenzweig
Janet Cole
CO-PRODUCER
Howard Rosenman
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bernd Meiners
EDITOR
Dawn Logsdon
WRITER
Sharon Wood
MUSIC
Tibor Szemzö

AWARDS

UNITED STATES

Documentary Jury Award for Directing
Sundance Film Festival [American premiere 2000]
Jury Award: Best Documentary
Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2000
Three Dollar Bill Cinema Award for Excellence
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2000
Audience Award: Best Documentary
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2000
GLAAD Media Award, 2002
GLITTER AWARD: Best Documentary voted by U.S./International Gay Film Festivals 2002
NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARD 2002

GLOBAL

FIPRESCI Award (International Film Critics Association):
Best Film, Panorama Section; and Teddy Award: Best Documentary of Festival
Berlin International Film Festival [European premiere 2000]
International Documentary Award 2000
Jury Prize and Audience Award: Best Documentary
Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Jury Prize: Best Documentary
Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2000
Audience Award
Pink Apple Film Festival (Switzerland)
Audience Award: Best Feature Film
Madrid Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Audience Award: Best Feature
Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Exhibition
Audience Award: Best Documentary
identities Queer Film Festival (Austria)
Audience Award, Best Documentary
Mezipatra – Czech GLBT Film Festival
YAMAGATA International film festival 2001
Audience Award: Best Film (MiX Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity)

REVIEWS

“At once admirable and deeply unsettling, this film draws upon the testimony of little more than a handful of the all-but-vanished ranks of survivors to relate the horror of the Nazi purge of homosexuals from the life of Germany and the aftereffects that scar and roil these men as the 21st century begins.” (Lawrence Van Gelder: ‘Paragraph 175’: Condemned by the Nazis, but Not for Religion, New York Times, September 13, 2000)

„Von den 100 000 Homosexuellen, die während der Nazi-Zeit inhaftiert, gefoltert und, zu Tausenden, vernichtet wurden, leben heute noch zehn Zeugen. Fünf von ihnen stellen sich ihrem Schmerz und machen diesen Dokumentarfilm zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis – diese Floskel meint für einmal wirklich zu einem Erlebnis, das man nicht mehr vergessen kann. Und dies ohne Rückgriff auf die bekannten Bilder des Grauens.“ (Stefan Zweifel: Dokumentarfilm als Dokument. «Paragraph 175» und die homosexuellen Zeugen des Holocaust. 8. Juni 2000 / Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9. Juni 2000)

Daniele Scalise, Caso del Giorno. Quelli col triangolo rosa Migliaia di omosessuali morti nei campi di concentramento nazisti. Una ferita rimossa. E ora riaperta dal documentario “Paragrafo 175”. Ne parla l’autore Klaus Müller, 06.07.2001, L’Espresso Online

Carlos Bonfil, Artículo 175, foro de la cineteca, martes 19 de septiembre de 2000

SCREENINGS IN

USA, Brasil, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Hongkong, Israel, Canada, Portugal, Poland, South Korea, Mexico, Finland, Taiwan, Australia, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, South Africa, China a.o.

SCREENED ON TELEVISION

United Kingdom (Channel 4); United States (HBO), Canada, Netherlands, Germany, France, a.o.

Production

FAMILY IS…? A GLOBAL CONVERSATION (Salzburg Global LGBT Forum, Austria/USA 2017)

“None of us come from families that were prepared for us.” Klaus Mueller, Founder and Chair, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum

Family is a fundamental human condition. It is also a fundamental human right. Since its foundation in 2013, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum has focused on the realities and experiences of families and their LGBT children, and especially the consequences of exclusion and discrimination. In 2015, with the support by the German Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women & Youth, the Forum launched a three-year project called “Family is…?”. Mueller and State Secretary Ralf Kleindiek introduced the three-year collaboration in a conversation on “Family is…” at the session Strengthening Communities: LGBT Rights and Social Cohesion in 2015. We interviewed our Forum members – a network of leaders coming from 70 countries – about their families of birth, their families of choice and the families they raise. This film portrays the complexities of our lives and hopes to support a global conversation on inclusive families. In May 2017, the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women & Youth hosted the premier at an event “Family is…? A Global Conversation” at its Berlin headquarters.

Director: Klaus Mueller; Camera: Eduardo Gellner; Watsamon “June” Tri-yasakda; Sound: Kathrin Kerschbaumer; Ong Trakarnrungroj. Produced by Salzburg Global (2017)

Production

Maar ik was een meisje / BUT I WAS A GIRL

Frame Media Productions, Netherlands 1999

Frieda Belinfante 1904 – 1995

A talented cellist educated by her Jewish father, the first female conductor in music history, a lesbian member of the Dutch resistance: The lives of Frieda Belinfante stretch over nine decades of the 20th century.

The film documentary ‘Maar ik was een meisje / But I was a girl…’ is based on my interview in May 1994 with then 90-year-old Frieda Belinfante for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum* as described in this interview. Frieda was born on May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam and died on April 26, 1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Research made possible by Frieda’s detailed testimony unearthed additional material on her lives in Europe and the United States that allowed us to develop this film documentary.

‘But I was a girl’ tells the extraordinary story of Dutch Frieda Belinfante, a lesbian who became the first female conductor in prewar Amsterdam, but retreated from a promising musical career after the German invasion of the Netherlands. Instead she dissolved her orchestra and went underground. At first Frieda was working alone falsifying ID cards for Jews in hiding, later with gay writer Willem Arondeus. Both participated in the preparations of one of the most daring acts of the Dutch resistance, the attack on the Amsterdam population registry in 1943. Frieda Belinfante survived as one of the few members of the group, for months hiding in men’s cloth. On her own, she escaped through Belgium and France to Switzerland in the winter of 1944 and was interned in a Swiss refugee camp. After the war she returned to the Netherlands and emigrated to the United States in 1947. She founded the Orange County Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1950’s and was its conductor for many years. In the 1994 interview, at the end of her life, she shares her story for the first time.

CREDITS
Director: Toni Boumans
Assistant Director and Interview Frieda Belinfante: Klaus Mueller
Producer: Frame Media Productions
1999 Netherlands; 69 min; Screenings in Italy, USA, Netherlands, Germany

Please see tribute to Lesbians and Gay men in the resistance during Pride Month 2021 in USHMM Facebook Live Event called Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution.. Watch the conversation to learn about Frieda Belinfante, one of Europe’s first female conductors and a lesbian, and painter Willem Arondeus, the gay leader of this group of artists turned resisters. Being gay, their stories of courage were erased for many decades. A conversation between Edna Friedberg and Klaus Mueller

BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF FRIEDA BELINFANTE:
Klaus Mueller: Ik wilde het gevaar in het gezicht kijken. De levens van Frieda Belinfante. In: Klaus Mueller en Judith Schuyf (red.): Het begint met nee zeggen. Biografieën rond verzet en homoseksualiteit 1940-194. Amsterdam, Schorer 2006.

BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF WILLEM ARONDEUS:
Klaus Mueller: Het is zo licht om in liefde van het leven te scheiden. Willem Arondeus, homoseksueel en verzetsleider. In: Klaus Mueller en Judith Schuyf (red.): Het begint met nee zeggen. Biografieën rond verzet en homoseksualiteit 1940-194. Amsterdam, Schorer 2006.

SUMMARY OF EARLY LECTURE
“Resistance: The unknown story of Frieda Belinfante” in the conference report ‘The Holocaust in the Netherlands: A Reevaluation’, USHMM, May 1997

ACCESS TO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW
Oral history interview with Frieda Belinfante, May 31, 1994
Transcript of Frieda Belinfante interview, USHMM
Photographs of Frieda Belinfante, USHMM

* All opinions expressed on this site are those of Klaus Mueller and do not represent the opinions of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council or United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Production

Just happy the WAY I AM

EAST/WEST Production, Video, Slovenia/Netherlands 1998

A hot summer week in 1997, Italy. Young Gays and Lesbians from all over the world meet at a conference on ‘Homophobia and Fascism’. But how does their life look alike?

They confront their history of the persecution of gay men and women by Nazi Germany and other fascist regimes. Discover the differences and similarities of their present lives. Imagine their future: Natasha from Belarus, Sven from Belgium, Maria from Argentina, Nick from Bulgaria, Francesco from Italy, Sabina from Australia, Ali and Pascal from France, Suzy and Colin from the United Kingdom, Dennis and Henrike from the Netherlands and Germany – they all belong to a new generation of gay and lesbian youth exploring new freedoms and old shadows. Some as they say are just ‘happy the way I am’, others are isolated and living on the net as a replacement for a community.
Moments of happiness, a Jewish marriage, talks about sex and faith, the remembrance of the victims of the past and clever media strategies for the future – this 45-minute documentary portrays lesbian girls and gay boys in their own words. Their voices, their faces. Living in very different countries, but thinking globally. “We all dance to the same music”, says Sabina. But every rhythm is a different one.

Shot on digital camera and with all the improvisational space this new medium offers, ‘Just happy the way I am’ is an experimental way of telling a story. Reacting to what happens rather than working from a predetermined concept. It is the first Slovenian-Dutch co-production of its kind.

CREDITS
A film by Klaus Mueller
Camera by Miha Lobnik
Cut, sound, post-production: Lobnik/Mueller
Video: VHS PAL
Length: 45 minutes
THANKS
This film was supported by Trut Foundation, Netherlands; Open Society Institute, Slovenia; Slavka and Andrej Lobnik
SCREENINGS
Slovenia/Netherlands, Romania, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia

IN SLOVENIAN
ČISTO SREČEN, KAKRŠEN SEM – JUST HAPPY THE WAY I AM
Vroč poletni teden v Italiji leta 1997. Mladi geji in lezbijke z vsega sveta se srečajo na posvetu o homofobiji in fašizmu. Toda kakšna so pravzaprav njihova življenja? Soočeni z zgodovino pregona gejev in lezbijk v nacistični Nemčiji in drugih fašističnih režimih odkrivajo medsebojne podobnosti in razlike. Predstavljajte si njihovo prihodnost: Nataša iz Belorusije, Sven iz Belgije, Maria iz Argentine, Nick iz Bolgarije, Francesco iz Italije, Sabina iz Avstralije, Ali in Pascal iz Francije, Suzy in Colin iz Velike Britanije, Denis in Henrike iz Nizozemske ter Nemčije, vsi pa pripadniki nove generacije istospolno usmerjenih mladih, ki spoznavajo sence preteklosti in odkrivajo svobodo sedanjosti.

‘Čisto srečen, kakršen sem’, pravijo nekateri, medtem ko drugi še vedno živijo v nadomestni družbi, v zavetju interneta.
Trenutki veselja, poroka judovskih lezbijk, pogovori o spolnosti in veri, spomin na žrtve preteklosti in inteligentne medijske strategije za prihodnost. O vsem tem govori 45 minutni dokumentarni portret mladih lezbijk in gejev. Njihove besede, njihovi obrazi. Čeprav živijo v zelo različnih deželah, razmišljajo globalno: ‘Vsi plešemo na isto glasbo,’ pravi Sabina, a vsak pozna svoj ritem.
‘Čisto srečen, kakršen sem’ je film, ki je posnet in montiran z najnovejšo digitalno video tehnologijo in ob vsem improvizacijskem prostoru, ki ga nov medij ponuja, na nov ter eksperimentalen način pripoveduje zgodbo. Reagirati na tisto, kar se zgodi, postaja pomembnejše od ozkih, vnaprej določenih konceptov. Gre za prvo slovensko-nizozemsko (neodvisno) produkcijo te vrste.

CREDITS
ČISTO SREČEN, KAKRŠEN SEM – JUST HAPPY THE WAY I AM
Režija: Klaus Müller; Kamera: Miha Lobnik; Produkcija: East/West; Dolžina: 45 minut; Leto: 1998
Informacije/VHS video:
Film so podprli: Trut Foundation (Nizozemska); Zavod za odprto družbo Slovenija; Slavka in Andrej Lobnik