Light at Heart Visions of gravity. Beta-SP Script/ Direction, Camera/ Editing: Manfred Hulverscheidt Additional camera, sound: Carl Hulverscheidt Music: Jimi Hendrix, Richard Strauß, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Franz Waxman/George Bizet, George Crumb Archive-Footage: NASA, Houston, Texas Producer: Carl-Ludwig Rettinger Commissioning Editor: Doris Hepp Production: 3Sat1991. Length: 45:00.

Lightness and weight - exertion, upward motion, elevation and fall - physical and mental gravity: these all comprise the themes of „Light at Heart“.

We observe a plummeting airplane, polevaulters, circus performers, acrobates and astronauts and from time to time hear a few sentences about their experiences, dreams and sleeping habits. „Spirit“ is the lightest element, the only flyinig object truly capable of supporting its own weight.

Avoiding all commentary and explanatory apparatus, I concentrate on the observation of the various motions. Interwoven with these observations of gravitation is the story of the American journey to the moon, told from the point of view of late astronaut James Irvin.