An encounter between a Stasi officer and his informer in an apartment in Leipzig is the setting for Zimmer, Gespräche. Neither the Stasi nor the city of Leipzig nor the GDR are mentioned by name; the film is set in an undisclosed place and time. Only the accent of the actors and their clothes provide any indications. Dora García did not intend to make a documentary or a fictional work. It is more a quest into communicating abstract notions such as fear, control, authority, subservience and power within certain historical circumstances. Concepts that are closely linked to issues such as secrecy, archiving and codes of behaviour – recurrent themes in the work of Dora García.
Also in this combined programme
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Hallo
The most common word in telephone traffic leads us through the history of the phone. -
Cell
Concentrated montage of fragments from films with only flickering cathode-ray tubes, without images. -
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elesyn 15.625
Abstract video that uses elementary building blocks of the signal to achieve a beautiful synthesis of image and sound. -
Three Graces
Fascinating animation film in which the tracks are followed from the first sound recordings of the human voice.
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 31'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
