Generation Contract
Two filmmakers portray their parents, one of them her father, the other her mother. Both are visiting the place they grew up in and are confronted with the spaces, places and objects of their childhood, to which memories cling like ghost impossible to expulse. Yet, not only the past but also the future haunts both films: The inevitable aging of the parent generation and having to deal with transience and death occupy both parents and daughters, as well as the question: What remains?
Raymond
In RAYMOND – an intimate film about the relationship between the artist and her father – filmmaker indirectly sketches a picture of her background, and what knowledge, spiritual and emotional baggage she has carried away from it. We hear how her father tries to understand the world by quantifying and categorizing certain things, from calculating the calories that his farm produced to measuring the number of miles that he travelled while commuting. At the same time he tells about the ‘little fantasies’ that he had as a child (bending trees with his fingers, or playing guitar on electrical power lines), talks animatedly about the origins of the world, and tells his daughter lovingly how she behaved as a baby. Yuen seems to be raising the question of whether you can approach and comprehend the world in a purely rational manner. Does something exist if it cannot be quantified.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:11:00
- Director: Nina Yuen
- Production: x
- Photography: x
- Editing: x
- Music: x
- Sound: x
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
Visitation
A farm in North Germany. Fields, sheeps, a dyle. Children are running through the house. A dinner service on the table. Grandmother Lulu has died. Her belongings are given out, the bed room is being painted. A barking dog. The nightingale sings. A clock is ticking. Flying sparks at night. Conversations with the mother about dealing with illness, ageing and death. About care and dignity. A visit of a friend in a nursing home. Come by at midnight - a lullaby and a strange message on the answering machine: Am I here? HEIMSUCHUNG accompanies the film maker Henrike Meyer when she‘s visiting the house of her family after her grandmother past away. A place, that appears intimate and mysterious at the same time. The atmosphere is influenced by light and darkness, memories, fears and imaginations. Home can also be uncanny.
- Deutschland
- 00:53:07
- Director: Henrike Meyer
- Production: Henrike Meyer
- Photography: Bruno Derksen, Henrike Meyer
- Editing: Henrike Meyer, Bruno Derksen
- Sound: Bruno Derksen, Henrike Meyer
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
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- A38-Production Grant
