Büchner Filmproduktion

A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.

At the Mosaik art studio in Berlin, artists with disabilities are able to produce their work unhindered. Sabine Herpich focusses on the artistic process and finds in so doing a form as precise as it is tender.

A conversation with camerawoman and Studio Tatyana co-founder Tatyana Loginova from September 2024 in preparation for a Forum & Friends event, adapted for film by Christiane Büchner. For technical reasons, the organisers were only able to capture an audio recording of the conversation – this recording has been supplemented by animated sequences from Christiane Büchner as well as video footage, photographs and documents from the following sources: the Hildegard Westbeld Collection in the archive of Kinothek Asta Nielsen and the private archives of Alla Tkatchenko and Tatyana Loginova.