19.02. 15:00 Eng. subtitles Arsenal 1
20.02. 20:30 Eng. subtitles Arsenal 2
A slight trembling, the muscles of the throat, the shoulders, the torso sways back and forth, a shrugging of the shoulders, a strained swallowing. An actress, an actor, shot from behind, from the side, who’ve taken on the task of measuring and relating. The measurements: the space between camera and performance, be- tween narration and event, between image and sound, the sound of the space. The relations: to one another, to the space, to the camera, and time and again to the text. Are they telling their story, is what’s happening all in the description, or does the text depict a description, a visual narrative, which then happens elsewhere? A film of speaking bodies, antagonisms, intonations, rehearsals. Always accompanied by the camera’s serenity and precision and the audible resonances of the space.
Markus Ruff, born 1977 in Stuttgart, lives and works in Berlin. Between 2002 and 2010 he studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Films: Aus der Leere (2005), Le spoglie dell’oggi – Die Überreste vom Heute (2006), Erika (2008).
Director, editor, script: Markus Ruff
Director of photography: Christoph Lemmen
Sound: Tobias Bilz
Sound editor: Jochen Jezussek
Actors: Birgit Ludwig, Antoine Davenne.
Format: HDCAM
Running time: 45 minutes
Language: French
