What unites us is sometimes exactly what separates us. We’re different, go our own ways and practice farewells together. In ACORDATE DAME UN BESO AL DESPERTAR, Estefanía Clotti reads a series of letters and notes that her family has left each other over the years in their shared apartment, while in SEKUNDENARBEITEN, a filmmaker and a painter get closer to each other through their respective modes of expression. ELLE too testifies to the closeness that can reveal itself in separation: one day father and child take the freedom to make their own acquaintances in the park. In MADRUGADA there is a final farewell: A mother leaves and to those left behind only vague gestures and words remain to thicken the plot. What do we have, learn, know of each other? (Theresa George)
For fifteen years, my mother, sisters, and I wrote letters to each other while living in the same house. In this animated essay, the words of that correspondence are brought into dialogue with images from the everyday life today to explore the emotional bonds between the women in my family.… >>>
Lieselott Beschorner, born in 1927, rarely surfaced in the art scene and was not interested in belonging to any networks although already in 1951, she was among the first women to be accepted as a member of the Vienna Secession. Subsequent to the donation of the majority of her work to public collections, solo exhibitions stirred memories of her as a seminal artist. SEKUNDARARBEITEN is an extraordinary portrait of a reclusive woman artist, who despite her advanced age and failing eyesight, has not lost her desire to create.… >>>
In the glistening light of a spring day, father and child roam through the botanical garden. After losing each other, both make their own acquaintances. Eventually, both leave the garden together and halt at a river. From a blossoming bush they hear a flute – somebody is practicing the instrument in the hidden.… >>>
Faced with her mother's disappearance, Isabel finds in the reconstruction of her gestures a possible explanation for her escape.… >>>