Minuet is a documentary adaptation based on the eponymous novel by the well-known Flemish author Louis Paul Boon.
 A man, his wife and their much younger housemaid tell us about themselves and their relationships to each other, which are characterized by mutual, furtive observation and glances.
Within the iconography of this patriarchal triptych, the film’s characters grapple with their own subjective narratives of the film’s recurring images. Between re-enactment and reproduction, the novel’s brutal language do not even spare the director’s own private life, in turn raising the question: which of the recounted moral violations is conserved within his own four, heteronormative walls? Minuet is the terse story of an ordinary act of violence – the power to interpret a reality.

A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create this simple „what if.“ 
Besides working in New York with experimental filmmaker Jack Smith, Spengler collaborated with many of the most important figures in post-war German film and theater: from Fassbinder to Schlingensief as well as Fritz Kortner and Heiner Müller. 

World famous since his role as the transsexual Elvira Weishaupt in Fassbinder’s IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS, Volker Spengler is the impetus behind this little documentary-cum-chamber play set in his favorite West Berlin bar and second home, Diener Tattersall. Avoiding causal connections and the trappings of a typical „bio pic,“ it is an attempt to do justice to our friend Volker through collective narration. A family gathering that definitely never took place this way. 
Because Volker Spengler doesn’t fit into any joke, anecdote, or film. Even this one.

In a dark living room, a young woman sinks into the sofa. By saying: „I wish I was a carpet, then I would never have to get up“ she bids farewell to her domestic duties and leaves her two children Flippa and Furia. It is trough the diary of the now teenage Flippa that we learn of this incident. In Martha Mechow’s experimental debut film, the then 23 year old paints pictures with words that rhyme, soliloquize, or improvise from that event on. Unhappy in love Flippa, writes to her mother inbetween colourful drawings. Calls it „the heterosexual knot“, that unites them in their misfortune and which led the big sister to join the crooked mother-child-resort „Barranconi“. A place, where pregnant bellies become Trojan Horses and two young men the undoing of all. Losing Faith tells, as detailed as can be in 720×576 pixels, of the pain of a protagonist who loves what love can not save.