{"id":18,"date":"2021-11-19T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/de\/?p=18"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:37:11","slug":"divine-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Divine Location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/de\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=post\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LF_Profilbild_GoeLA_EN-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>Divine Location<\/strong><\/strong><br>A City Reinvents Itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOCU | FILM | CINEMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany 2014 <br>99 Min (D)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DIrectors:<\/strong> Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: realfiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-medium-font-size is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/goettlichelage\" style=\"border-radius:40px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">STREAM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For educational institutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-medium-font-size is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/mov\/LF-GL-Unterrichtsmat-Wissenschaftsjahr2015.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:40px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teaching material <\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline has-medium-font-size is-style-outline--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/goettlichelagebildung\" style=\"border-radius:40px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">STREAM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We watch as a beautiful artificial lake is developed on the vast site of a former steelworks plant: Lake Phoenix. We meet old locals, attend client meetings and accompany new residents who tell us of their plans and dreams. We watch as they all become winners or losers in the game called social progress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"trailer\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>TRAILER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"premium-video-box premium-video-box-5a0cd271bd7f video-overlay-false premium-aspect-ratio-169\" data-type=\"vimeo\" style=\"border-style:none;box-shadow:0px 0px 10px transparent  \"><div class=\"premium-video-box__container\"><div><div class=\"premium-video-box-inner-wrap\"><div class=\"premium-video-box-video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/505194002?autoplay=false&amp;loop=0&amp;muted=false&amp;rel=&quot;0&quot;&amp;controls=1\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"premium-video-box__desc\"><span class=\"premium-video-box__desc_text\" style=\"text-shadow:0px 0px 10px transparent\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"awards\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/aehren_gl_Ae_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1789\" style=\"width:204px;height:115px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1790\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae05.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1795\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae06-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1797\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae07.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1798\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/aehren_gl_Ae08.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1799\" style=\"width:204px;height:109px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>FESTIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2019 \u2014 <strong>Werkleitz Festivale<\/strong> <strong>Dessau<\/strong> \/ Modell und Ruine \/ Dessau, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2017 \u2014 <strong>archicin\u00e9: Saarart11<\/strong> \/ <strong>Architekturfilmtage<\/strong> \/ Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2016 \u2014 <strong>World Film Festival<\/strong> \/ Tartu, Estonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>34. Festival<\/strong> <strong>International Jean Rouch<\/strong> \/ Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>AFFR \/ Architecture Film Festival<\/strong> \/ Rotterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>27. Der Neue Heimatfilm<\/strong> \/ Freistadt, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Saratov Sufferings Intl. Film Festival<\/strong> \/ Saratow, Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>MAFF \/ 13. Matsalu Loodusfilmide Festival<\/strong> \/ Lihula, Estonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Ruhrtriennale<\/strong> \/ Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Architektur. Film. Sommer<\/strong>, Wien, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>NaturVision Filmfestival<\/strong> \/ Ludwigsburg, Germany<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong>Feuer und Stahl \u2013 Kino und Kunst im Kohlekahn<\/strong>, K\u00f6ln\/Saarbr\u00fccken\/Dortmund, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong>stattutopie<\/strong> \/ Basel, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong>6. Kirchliches Filmfestival<\/strong> \/ Recklinghausen, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong><strong>8. Nonfiktionale<\/strong><\/strong> \/ Festival des dokumetarischen Films \/ Bad Aibling, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong><strong>Berlinale<\/strong><\/strong> \/ Lola \/ Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 \u2014 <strong><strong>DocPoint<\/strong><\/strong> \/ 14. Helsinki Documentary Film Festival \/ Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 \u2014 <strong><strong>Kasseler Dokfest<\/strong><\/strong> \/ 31. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest\/ Kassel, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 \u2014 <strong><strong>38. Duisburger Filmwoche \/ <em>Opening Film<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> \/ Duisburg, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 \u2014 <strong><strong>DOK.fest<\/strong><\/strong> \/ 29. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival M\u00fcnchen \/ Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 \u2014 <strong>Rooftop Films<\/strong>, New York \/ USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 \u2014 <strong>25. Kinofest L\u00fcnen<\/strong> \/ Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp; \u2014 <strong>Ruhrtriennale <\/strong>\/ Film Retrospective loekenfranke \/ Bochum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>SYMPOSIUM \/ LECTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">in context of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2020 \u2014 <strong>MetroLab Movie Night<\/strong>, Wien, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2020 \u2014 Series \/ <strong>Futur III<\/strong> \/ Theater Dortmund, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2019 \u2014 <strong>IBA Film&nbsp;Screenings<\/strong>, Wien, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2019 \u2014 Architecturfilm-series\/ <strong>Architektur und Gl\u00fcck<\/strong>, Haus der&nbsp;Architektur, K\u00f6ln, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2019 \u2014 Film series \/ <strong>\u00dcberleben in Zeiten des&nbsp;Kapitalismus<\/strong> \/ Niehlerfreiheit e.V., K\u00f6ln, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2019 \u2014 Film series \/ <strong>Kunst- und Architekturfilmen der&nbsp;Vereinigung Kunstschaffende Unterfrankens (VKU)<\/strong>, W\u00fcrzburg, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2016 \u2014 Symposium \/ <strong>Water Power<\/strong> \/ Universit\u00e4t&nbsp;Tampere, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 Symposium \/ <strong>DOKU.ARTS \/   Dokumentarische&nbsp;Langzeitbeobachtungen<\/strong>, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Schulkinowochen&nbsp;<\/strong>in NRW &amp; Niedersachsen, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Zeitraffer Ph\u00f6nixsee<\/strong> \/ Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 Exhibition \/ <strong>100 Jahre&nbsp;Westfalen<\/strong> \/ Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Kultur Dortmund, Germnay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 Film series \/ <strong>Forging&nbsp;the Future<\/strong> \/ Goethe Institut Washington, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2015 \u2014 <strong>Offene FH Dortmund<\/strong>, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2014 \u2014 Series Allerweltskino \/ Sonderreihe \/ <strong>Zukunft der Stadt<\/strong>, K\u00f6ln, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2014 \u2014 <strong>NRW Kinotag<\/strong>, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">2014 \u2014 <strong>Filmoteca de Catalunya Barcelona<\/strong>, Spain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"press\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8222;The film&nbsp;accompanies how, over five years, a steelworks becomes a lake and industrial&nbsp;society becomes a&nbsp;piece of the glistening world of services and leisure. It&nbsp;does this through the intimate, non-judgmental&nbsp;observation of sets of people&nbsp;who could scarcely be more different than one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film&nbsp;does not offer a diagnosis &#8211; instead it observes, penetrates deep into the most&nbsp;diverse milieus and&nbsp;scenes and leaves the viewer to draw their own conclusions.&nbsp;And over and over again, the viewer is left&nbsp;astonished. No polemic, no play, could&nbsp;tell this story as obliquely, as comically, and as impressively as reality&nbsp;itself&nbsp;does. All you have to do is take a close look.&#8220;<em><br>Harald J\u00e4hner \/\/ Frankfurter Rundschau<\/em> \/\/ <em>23.08.2014<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"premium-accordion-2a3a1f79-f379-4ce6-a45b-f139f9e56e6d\" class=\"wp-block-premium-accordion premium-accordion\"><div id=\"premium-accordion__layer0\" class=\"premium-accordion__content_wrap\"><div class=\"premium-accordion__title_wrap premium-accordion__ltr premium-accordion__in\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;border:none;border-width:1px;border-radius:0px\"><div class=\"premium-accordion__title\"><h4 class=\"premium-accordion__title_text\" style=\"color:#7c7c7c;font-size:undefinedpx;letter-spacing:undefinedpx;text-transform:none;font-weight:400;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px undefined;line-height:undefinedpx\"><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"premium-accordion__icon_wrap\"><svg class=\"premium-accordion__icon premium-accordion__closed\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\" style=\"padding:undefinedpx;border-radius:undefinedpx\"><polygon points=\"16.7,3.3 10,10 3.3,3.4 0,6.7 10,16.7 10,16.6 20,6.7 \"><\/polygon><\/svg><\/div><\/div><div class=\"premium-accordion__desc_wrap premium-accordion__desc_close\" style=\"text-align:left;border:none;border-width:1px;border-radius:0px;padding-left:0\"><p class=\"premium-accordion__desc\" style=\"color:#000000;font-size:undefinedpx;letter-spacing:undefinedpx;text-transform:none;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px undefined;font-weight:400;line-height:undefinedpx\"><em>&#8222;Divine Location&#8220; is a cheerful-melancholic documentary that does almost completely without a narrator. The film finds a good relationship with its characters, listens and accompanies them throughout the years. By doing so, anecdotes and details are captured which, in the microcosm of Phoenix Lake, represent changes that have affected the entire Ruhr area and many other regions in Germany: Deindustrialisation, the gentrification of former working-class districts, etc. H\u00f6rde is the location of an archetypal class conflict&#8230; The result is not exactly funny, but sometimes you laugh to keep from crying<\/em>\u201c<br><em>www.filmkritik.de \/\/ Sascha Westphal<\/em><br><br>&#8222;The film gets very close to the people involved, the people who merely live there, to the point where you feel like they have forgotten the camera over the years. But Loeken and Franke have looked closely, they listen, they let Dortmund talk. What they depict is more than the accelerated construction of a city lake: they demonstrate to us the meaning of &#8222;deindustrialisation&#8220; and &#8222;gentrification&#8220; and make us aware of what both do to people.\u201d<br><em>Annika Fischer<\/em> \/\/ <em>WAZ \/\/ 17.08.2014<\/em><br><br>&#8222;DIVINE LOCATION tells its story in a completely unruffled way and with a soothing calm, without judging and without painting anything in black and white. You constantly sense a critique of the planning system, but it is never blatantly expressed.&#8220;<br><em>Jurybegr\u00fcndung FBW-Pr\u00e4dikat \u201ebesonders wertvoll\u201c<\/em><br><br>&#8222;The buzzword gentrification&nbsp;has rarely been made as tangible as it is in these chronological&nbsp;snapshots of&nbsp;migrant locals and workers on the one hand and marketers and moneyed newcomers&nbsp;on the other. This film, which does without a narrator, never takes sides.&nbsp;Instead, with intelligent&nbsp;editing, it intensifies the divide between the rose-tinted&nbsp;world view of the newcomers and the real&nbsp;world.&#8220;<br><em>Birgit Roschy \/\/ Publik Forum \/\/ 29.08.2014<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>&#8222;Divine Location&#8220; visits, in the most vivid way possible, the post-industrial residential world of the Ruhr area, and lets things speak for themselves, without additional commentary. And because Franke and Loeken were allowed to accompany the construction project throughout all of its phases and also in internal meetings, there is enough to see and hear. These unusually frank insights into the builders\u2019 world also make &#8222;Divine Location&#8220; an &#8211; often comical &#8211; lesson in how marketing-oriented thinking has long determined even public large-scale projects.<\/em>&#8222;<br>Silvia Hallensleben\/\/tagesspiegel.de\/\/21.08.2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"premium-accordion-8d278b97-aa58-402f-97bc-800170d9585d\" class=\"wp-block-premium-accordion premium-accordion\"><div id=\"premium-accordion__layer0\" class=\"premium-accordion__content_wrap\"><div class=\"premium-accordion__title_wrap premium-accordion__ltr premium-accordion__in\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;border:none;border-width:1px;border-radius:0px\"><div class=\"premium-accordion__title\"><h4 class=\"premium-accordion__title_text\" style=\"font-size:undefinedpx;letter-spacing:undefinedpx;text-transform:none;font-weight:400;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px undefined;line-height:undefinedpx\"><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"premium-accordion__icon_wrap\"><svg class=\"premium-accordion__icon premium-accordion__closed\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\" style=\"padding:undefinedpx;border-radius:undefinedpx\"><polygon points=\"16.7,3.3 10,10 3.3,3.4 0,6.7 10,16.7 10,16.6 20,6.7 \"><\/polygon><\/svg><\/div><\/div><div class=\"premium-accordion__desc_wrap premium-accordion__desc_close\" style=\"text-align:left;border:none;border-width:1px;border-radius:0px;padding-left:0\"><p class=\"premium-accordion__desc\" style=\"color:#000000;font-size:undefinedpx;letter-spacing:undefinedpx;text-transform:none;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px undefined;font-weight:400;line-height:undefinedpx\">&#8222;In&nbsp;&#8222;Divine Location&#8220;, documentary filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael&nbsp;Loeken use sensitive imagery and&nbsp;perceptive interviews to trace just how much conflict&nbsp;potential has been left behind&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;despite&nbsp;all of the excitement surrounding&nbsp;the new Phoenix&nbsp;Lake&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;in the wake of&nbsp;this urban&nbsp;upheaval . (&#8230;) Director Ulrike Franke allows all sides to have&nbsp;their say in front of the camera, and&nbsp;assembles what she sees and hears like a portrait&nbsp;of manners and morals: despair, doubt,&nbsp;bitterness, but also a spirit of&nbsp;optimism and pride resonate in the very personal statements. It\u2019s as if&nbsp;the&nbsp;interviewees have completely forgotten that Michael Loeken\u2019s camera were even there.&#8220;<br><em>Deutsche Welle \/\/ 21.08.2014<\/em><br><br>&#8222;The film&nbsp;succeeds in making socially relevant and complex processes understandable in an&nbsp;entertaining way.&nbsp;Issues like radical structural change &#8211; which not only the&nbsp;Ruhr area is experiencing &#8211; gentrification and the role of&nbsp;public space for the&nbsp;public good are made physically palpable for the viewer through precise&nbsp;observations.&nbsp;Always with a knowing smile, the film delivers surprising&nbsp;insights into the incredibly diverse social groups that&nbsp;are involved in this&nbsp;process. At the same time, the critical attitude of the two filmmakers, Ulrike&nbsp;Franke and&nbsp;Michael Loeken, is always unmistakable. Long-drawn-out changes and&nbsp;disparate attitudes collected during&nbsp;almost five years from the scene of the&nbsp;action &#8211; the setting of Lake Phoenix &#8211; are assembled here into a&nbsp;fascinating,&nbsp;charming and multi-layered cinematic narrative that bears a precise&nbsp;signature.&#8220;<br><em>Jurybegr\u00fcndung Nonfiktionale 2015 \/\/ Hauptpreis<\/em><br><br>&#8222;G\u00f6ttliche Lage ist ein gro\u00dfartiges Lehrst\u00fcck, mit &#8222;Divine Location is a fantastic educational&nbsp;piece, with a wonderful understanding of social upheaval, a clear eye&nbsp;for what&nbsp;is really going on. And it has humour too, which is a feature you rarely find&nbsp;in documentaries. The film&nbsp;makes us understand in every way &#8211; intellectually&nbsp;and visually &#8211; what structural change means.<br>Divine Location&#8220; can also be interpreted as&nbsp;a description of life as a form of applied surrealism, a comedy&nbsp;with grotesque&nbsp;and absurd moments. The anarchistic Canada geese that were not planned for, but&nbsp;prematurely populate the shore and shit in the planners&#8216; crystal-clear lake.&nbsp;The uninvited visitors coming to&nbsp;swim and have barbeques, who can\u2019t be kept&nbsp;away, even with millions of signs put up banning them from the&nbsp;area. And then&nbsp;the city and the development company invite Larry Hagman to the opening, the&nbsp;boss from&nbsp;&#8222;Dallas&#8220;, who obviously doesn&#8217;t have a clue what he\u2019s meant&nbsp;to be doing there: The past is supposed to lead&nbsp;to the future. You see it all&nbsp;and think: This is absolutely crazy.&#8220;<br><em>Jurybegr\u00fcndung Grimme-Preis 20<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"stills\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>STILLS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1-Still-GL-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1334\" 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https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12-Still-GL-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.loekenfranke.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12-Still-GL-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"synopsis\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a five-year period, a construction project was carried out in the working-class H\u00f6rde district of Dortmund. The former Phoenix-Ost steel plant, which once employed 18,000 people, was torn down to make room for an artificial lake \u2013 the Phoenix-See. With a surface area of 24 hectares, the Phoenix-See is larger than the Inner Alster lake in Hamburg. Luxury apartments and detached houses have been built, there is a marina and a plaza. The project descriptions of the Phoenix-See Development Company no longer tie the future of this part of town to the hard graft, steel production and environmental pollution of the past. The new buzzwords are recreation, relaxation and Mediterranean ambiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In G\u00f6ttliche Lage, Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken do more than document the progress of the building work, they also let investors and builders, planners and residents have their say. The film thus presents a complex picture of gentrification and of the ever-widening social gulf in post-industrial society. For in the streets neighbouring the Phoenix-See, the very same residents still have their homes as they did in the heyday of steel production. They have not moved into the new lakeside houses because they could never possibly afford to do so. And the first cracks are already beginning to appear in this promised new residential paradise: the lake, which as a rainwater storage basin forms part of the ecological restoration project for the Emscher River, has had a bathing ban imposed; parties in the evenings are a noise nuisance and the urban mansions now appear to have been built too close together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a five-year period, a construction project was carried out in the working-class H\u00f6rde district of Dortmund. The former Phoenix-Ost steel plant, which once employed 18,000 people, was torn down to make room for an artificial lake \u2013 the Phoenix-See. With a surface area of 24 hectares, the Phoenix-See is larger than the Inner Alster lake in Hamburg. Luxury apartments and detached houses have been built, there is a marina and a plaza. The project descriptions of the Phoenix-See Development Company no longer tie the future of this part of town to the hard graft, steel production and environmental pollution of the past. The new buzzwords are recreation, relaxation and Mediterranean ambiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In G\u00f6ttliche Lage, Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken do more than document the progress of the building work, they also let investors and builders, planners and residents have their say. The film thus presents a complex picture of gentrification and of the ever-widening social gulf in post-industrial society. For in the streets neighbouring the Phoenix-See, the very same residents still have their homes as they did in the heyday of steel production. They have not moved into the new lakeside houses because they could never possibly afford to do so. And the first cracks are already beginning to appear in this promised new residential paradise: the lake, which as a rainwater storage basin forms part of the ecological restoration project for the Emscher River, has had a bathing ban imposed; parties in the evenings are a noise nuisance and the urban mansions now appear to have been built too close together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"credits\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>CREDITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Divine Location<\/strong><br>A City 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