The film "Die Höhenluft - für Alle und Keinen" by Mika'Ela Fisher in national premiere at the XVFlorence Biennale, 2025 - FB

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The film "Die Höhenluft - für Alle und Keinen" by Mika'Ela Fisher in national premiere at the XVFlorence Biennale, 2025

The film “Die Höhenluft - für Alle und Keinen” (Pure Mountain Air – For All and No One) by Mika’Ela Fisher (Germany, 2023) will be screened as a national premiere on the occasion of the XV Florence Biennale (Fortezza da Basso, Florence, 18-26 October 2025), themed “The Sublime Essence of Light and Darkness. Concepts of Dualism and Unity in Contemporary Art and Design”.

With extensive references to Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, the film focuses on two opposing characters (their names, Angra and Spenta, come from Zoroastrian theology and characterize cosmogonic dualism) who represent two sides of the same coin. From the top of a mountain, Angra and Spenta observe the humans below, unwitting targets of their sick game, and pull the strings of these poor puppets, torn between good and evil. "Die Höhenluft - für Alle und Keinen" is a curious film, characterized by a certain cynical humour, which questions our free will and which also represents a reflection "on the human being; which I see as torn, manipulable, but still responsible for his actions and decisions", as the director stated.

The director

 

Mika'Ela Fisher is a German director, writer, producer, actress, model and master tailor. She has worked for the Haute Couture house Max Dietl in Munich, having obtained her master's degree as a bespoke tailor; also she modelled for many years for the fashion houses Martin Margiela, John Galliano, Hermès among others. Fisher gained recognition as an actor for her role of Zak, a ruthless killer in Guillaume Canet's “Tell No One”. In 2013, she began her career as a film director and producer with the short film “Die Tapferen Haende im Chaos der Zeit” (Valiant Hands in the Chaos of Time). Fisher has realised several short films, as well as the documentary “L'architecte textile” (presented at the XII Florence Biennale, 2019). “Die Höhenluft-für Alle und Keinen” (Pure Air of the Mountain: For All and None) is her first feature film.

Mika'Ela Fisher portrait photo by Andreas Licht
Mika'Ela Fisher portrait photo by Andreas Licht

Credits & Cast

 

Director, Author, Screenwriter, Production Designer,  Artistic Director, Costume Designer, Producer (Chrysopras Films): Mika'Ela Fisher
Co-Producer: Aline Bernard (The Hot Line)
Cast: Laurens Walter, Mika'Ela Fisher, Aurélie Lamachère
Musical voice-over: Philippe Matic-Arnauld des Lions
Music Composer: Sébastien Rostagno
Cinematographer: Sylvain Garnier-Goutard
Editor: Noémi de Fouchier

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