Landscapes familiar to the narrator. Poets of the moment equipped with social criticism. Where does the journey go? Henceforth through space and time a continuous rhythm drifts through everyday scenarios. Three films in equal keys that merge into a symphony. Poetic travel, chronicles from people and objects through wastelands, specific places and inhabited cities. Originally, the title “The Wind will Carry us” is a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, an Iranian filmmaker and poet. In 1999, Abbas Kiarostami released a feature film under the same title, which takes up the mood of Farrokhzad’s melancholy poem in its narrative. The two make use of poetic design devices in their artistic and cinematic works. The films CHIARA VISTA, AUGUSTS ORTE and AFTERLIVES combine dedication and sensitivity to places, nature and people with the works of the Iranian artists. (Afsun Moshiry)
A procedural portrayal of a place and its inhabitants. This place is called Tosterglope and is located in Wendland but keeps drifting further into the imaginary. The observations on location bring up questions transcending the concrete – questions about forms of community (especially amongst women) and about the conditions of the filmic framing of the present itself. Starting from the theatrical moments of everyday life, Alina Schmuch, Isabel Mehl together with singer Lisa Schmalz reactivate the former car dealership Chiara Vista, which now becomes the background setting for opera singing and for staging the idle cars. In a voice over that only seems to offer orientation, the search for knowledge that promises a closer look is put up for grabs.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
- Director: Alina Schmuch, Isabel Mehl
“It’s the end of August. The air is sluggish. And it’s hot.” These last three sentences in the voiceover to August's Places, Valérie Pelet’s cinematic travel journal, actually sum up quite well what to expect when you see it: in Super-16 reflecting the heat. The (Western) world, as it presents itself here, might deservedly allow itself to waste a little less energy and effort just once a year. Casually collecting images and notes, out of which a kind of criticism can be formulated. As Walter Benjamin wrote towards the end of his life and his escape, shortly before his suicide in Port Bou in 1942, about the “concept of history”: “It is never a document of culture without at the same time being one of barbarism.” Valérie Pelet’s film stands as emphatic proof of this thesis as it invites repeated viewings.… >>>
