[Frameworks] °*-*° Directors Lounge Screening - Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause - 26 June 2014 °*-*°

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening:

Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause
Szenario

Thursday, 26 June 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Szenario, a collaboration of the filmmakers 
Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause appears to be a 
documentation about a love affair; a chronicle of 
3 months in fall 1970, when a married man called 
Hans starts an affair with his secretary, called 
Monica, also married. The main character of the 
film could be called "the suitcase", though, a 
collection of notes, photographs, tickets and 
other papers from a suitcase, apparently 
collected by "him", the male lover. The notes 
conof diary entries, where Hans meticulously 
wrote down every date he met with Monica, how 
long they had sex, and in which position they had 
intercourse. He also added to the record the 
places and circumstances they met, yet and always 
in the spare lasistnguage of a book keeper or 
bank clerk. The typewritten notes are spoken by a 
female voice, while the film images show passages 
of urban landscape of Köln, mostly slow tracking 
shots, some of them from car, and both at night 
and at day time.

What looks like a straight documentary at first, 
however, turns out to be something altogether 
different if the viewer looks more precisely. It 
turns out to be a sophisticated narration that 
keeps irritating by indulging the viewer into the 
immersions of story telling on one hand, and 
showing doubts on its own media:
contradictions in sound, picture and story 
telling. The techniques of irritation or 
Brecht-like alienation effects start right from 
the beginning. It is thus worth to try a more 
close reading from the beginning again, of the 
opening scenes of the film. A young woman with 
large red glasses starts reading from a script. 
-*°°*-  Full text at richfilm.de


Artist Links:
http://www.workscited.de/

Links:
Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
Full program details:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar
http://www.z-bar.de


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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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