Christoph Schlingensief’s Heimat films, performance art, installations, and provocative television, operatic, and artistic productions shaped Germany’s cultural and political discourse for two decades. Unpublished and newly digitized footage captures the vast spectrum of Schlingensief’s impact.

Bettina Böhler—editor extraordinaire for filmmakers including Christian Petzold—takes the director’s chair for this documentary about an essential figure of German experimental cinema. Years of archival material constellate to create a picture not only of Schlingensief, but also of history itself.