Domestic spaces have always been object of reflection and experimentation for artists. The global pandemic has brought new aspects and added complexities to our intimate spaces making them oscillate between shelter and prison, depending on the day, and on our mood. A wide spectrum of possibilities opens up for being together while sharing room but not necessarily worldviews: from improvised stages and role-playing in familiar (compulsory)intimacy to carefully choreographed movements with an own and anarchical logic, or stolen sleeping hours for compulsive gaming. A filmic exploration of the limits, the absurdities and the possibilities of coming and living together. (Maria Morata)
A mansion, a lawn, some trees: an unmoved frontal view, 9 minutes long. We hear an off-screen voice: co-director Lukas Marxt commands/directs what goes on in the image. He calls up participants in a remote-controlled choreography: a certain "John" and his lawn-mower, remote-controlled by him; a "Mandy" whose drone ("camera 2") hovers above the house; and co-director "Jakub" Vrba, the only on-screen person, who climbs a ladder and holds up a cornet that emits smoke and sparks. Marxt´s orders make it happen: a strange ritual of 'order' in a bourgeois home which, as the film´s title says, is „Beautifully maintained and well located“. Maintenance provides continuity; here it locates us in a reversal of time: In this film, things don´t just go forward (order–>execution); there is also retroactivity at play. (Fragment from Drehli Robnik’s text)… >>>
- Director: Jakub Vrba, Lukas Marxt
A film project done at the kitchen table, from the level of the vacuum cleaner. Sophie Bösker rearranges her familial setting. As a grown daughter, she returns home during the Covid19 crisis. The possibilities are limited. Public space is in lockdown. Encounters with unknown people are rare to nonexistent. What else is left to do but encounter one’s own family in their friendly alien-ness. So, a sci-fi film in quarantine. Sophie Bösker has achieved a concise piece on family dynamics, on the backstage and frontstage of a household and at the same time on the role of the involved invader. The subliminal sense and silent gnawing. Pandemic insourcing, lockdown number one, 2020. (Fragment from Madeleine Bernstorff’s Text)… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
