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Schneeweiss

Schneeweiss

| IFFR 2003

A convent south of Berlin. Women live in seclusion. Liturgy, work, community. The hours of prayer divide the day. Common meals. In Silence.Common recreation. With pleasance. The film is tracking down the rhythm of their lives.

Also in this combined programme

Incense
main programme short
Meditating on light and space, with the aid of a stick of incense.
Oh Lover Boy Theme
main programme short
A performance in which blood flows; snapshot by a radical artist.
The Visitation
main programme short
Medieval inspiration, the cinema lit like a church through stained-glass windows. The light descends and touches people.
The Thousand Faces of God
main programme short
Representations of gods from all the great religions of the world mingle into each other.
Camera
main programme short
Three tableaux about the relationship between the still camera and space.
Terra Incognita
main programme short
Portrait of Easter Island, made without a lens, with a commentary by a computer.