Erinnerungen an Mexiko-Stadt
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Memories of Mexico City
25:43 min
16mm digital transfer / DCP 1:1.33, meU
DE/AUT/MX, 2024
SYNOPSIS
de
In Mexiko-Stadt mit der Schriftstellerin Lucia Berlin.
Ein autofiktionaler Reisebericht: Beobachtung, Vorstellung, Erinnerung.
en
In Mexico City with writer Lucia Berlin.
An autofictional travel diary: observation, imagination, memory.
directors statement:
In April ’23 I travelled to Mexico City to make a film about writer Lucia Berlin.
She lived in the city for a while, taking care of her dying sister. Events she would later auto-fictionalize in „A Manual for Cleaning Women“.
While wandering around Mexico City with my camera, I observed fleeting moments, trying to capture, what I would call, "gaps in the stream of time", absence or the traces, I believed, this absence would leave behind.
In close company with Lucia Berlin's stories, fiction and real events started to blend, while my assurance slowly grew, that something like truth can only be conceived in absence, retrospectively, in memory.
de
In Mexiko-Stadt mit der Schriftstellerin Lucia Berlin.
Ein autofiktionaler Reisebericht: Beobachtung, Vorstellung, Erinnerung.
en
In Mexico City with writer Lucia Berlin.
An autofictional travel diary: observation, imagination, memory.
directors statement:
In April ’23 I travelled to Mexico City to make a film about writer Lucia Berlin.
She lived in the city for a while, taking care of her dying sister. Events she would later auto-fictionalize in „A Manual for Cleaning Women“.
While wandering around Mexico City with my camera, I observed fleeting moments, trying to capture, what I would call, "gaps in the stream of time", absence or the traces, I believed, this absence would leave behind.
In close company with Lucia Berlin's stories, fiction and real events started to blend, while my assurance slowly grew, that something like truth can only be conceived in absence, retrospectively, in memory.
CREDITS
Ein Film von Simon Dallaserra
Kamera, Text, Schnitt: Simon Dallaserra
Stimme: Toni Maercklin
Tonmischung: Konstantin Heidler
Untertitel: Sophie Gmeiner
Textberatung: Iven Yorick Fenker
Dramaturgische Beratung: Nils Anders Schröder,
Sophie Gmeiner
Titelgestaltung: Max Koller
Filmentwicklung: Labo MX
Kopierung: Andec Cinegrell
Abtastung: Kornmanufaktur
Produktion: Schiefer FIlm
Musik:
Rachmaninov spielt Rachmaninov 2. Klavierkonzert
OP. 18 in C-Moll
Textstellen:
A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
(Picador, London 2016)
Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin
(Picador, London, 2019)
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
(In: New York Times, 20.8.2015)
Besonderen Dank an
Pedro Maia, Gabriel Elvira, Ina Alvarado-Dupuy, Gabriel Hyden, Sebastian Bobik, Teona Galgotiu, Sintje Gehrmann,
Sophie Gmeiner, Ernst Dallaserra
Ein Film von Simon Dallaserra
Kamera, Text, Schnitt: Simon Dallaserra
Stimme: Toni Maercklin
Tonmischung: Konstantin Heidler
Untertitel: Sophie Gmeiner
Textberatung: Iven Yorick Fenker
Dramaturgische Beratung: Nils Anders Schröder,
Sophie Gmeiner
Titelgestaltung: Max Koller
Filmentwicklung: Labo MX
Kopierung: Andec Cinegrell
Abtastung: Kornmanufaktur
Produktion: Schiefer FIlm
Musik:
Rachmaninov spielt Rachmaninov 2. Klavierkonzert
OP. 18 in C-Moll
Textstellen:
A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
(Picador, London 2016)
Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin
(Picador, London, 2019)
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
(In: New York Times, 20.8.2015)
Besonderen Dank an
Pedro Maia, Gabriel Elvira, Ina Alvarado-Dupuy, Gabriel Hyden, Sebastian Bobik, Teona Galgotiu, Sintje Gehrmann,
Sophie Gmeiner, Ernst Dallaserra