Lives of Performers

Rainer's first feature film begins with a rehearsal. In a series of tableaux, a love triangle develops, the story is told from off-screen and through fragments of text. "Her first film, says Heinz Emigholz, shows the seam between her work as a choreographer and the so very different work of stacking time containers against the transience of dance. She is not interested in the lives of the performers as real people, but in the nuance of how they live in the stereotypes of their roles. 'Archetypecasting' is what Rainer called this shift of attention to the simplified emotional constellations inherent in melodrama and soaps."