Fahrtwind - Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden

  • 85'
  • Austria
  • 2013
In this journey with no destination, Bernadette Weigel heads East, without knowing where she will end up next day. She travels via the Danube Delta to Odessa, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. On the way, she passes locks, dancing couples, refugees from Abkhazia, nodding donkey pumps and a trunk full of apples.
She also manages to capture dazzling water and the sun shining between her toes, as if the camera is a large butterfly net. Filmed on Super8 with asynchronous sound, this travelogue without dialogue does not show any unusual events, but random moments in which Weigel uses her camera to bite a piece out of life.
The essence of movement lies in immersion rather than progress through the world. Only then, when you need not go anywhere, do you realise where you are. 'When I’m on the move, when I’m in-between, I feel light. Dancing is not about moving ahead. And travelling is like dancing.' But when do you know that a journey has come to an end?

  • 85'
  • Austria
  • 2013
Director
Bernadette Weigel
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
85'
Medium
DCP
International title
Fair Wind - Notes of a Traveller
Language
German
Producer
Florian Brüning
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Bernadette Weigel
Cinematography
Bernadette Weigel
Editor
Alexandra Schneider
Sound Design
Maximilian Liebich
Music
Astrid Schwarz
Website
http://www.fairwind-film.at
Director
Bernadette Weigel
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
85'
Medium
DCP
International title
Fair Wind - Notes of a Traveller
Language
German
Producer
Florian Brüning
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Bernadette Weigel
Cinematography
Bernadette Weigel
Editor
Alexandra Schneider
Sound Design
Maximilian Liebich
Music
Astrid Schwarz
Website
http://www.fairwind-film.at