Switching

Switching investigates an alternative manner of narration and was especially developed for DVD. The story becomes a fragmented version of reality and the viewer is given the role of user, who discovers the stories piece by piece, and sometimes disrupts them, in a narrative labyrinth. The unusual element of this film is that there is no visible interface on screen. The viewer can press the button at any desired moment and jump to another random moment in the story. As a result, the viewer gets a lot of power over the associative course of the story. Switching does have a beginning, but no ending. The film starts with Frida, who switches on the light in the middle of the night to take a good look at her lover. That was not a good idea and, just as in the myth of Cupido and Psyche, that’s the end of love from that time on. Simon does come and bring her a cup of coffee in bed in the morning, but the passion has clearly gone. Frida and Simon have reached a hiatus in their relationship and really have to make a decision: can they do without each other or will they fight for intimacy? They have one problem: the desire to cling onto the past is greater than the urge to change.