Fahrtwind – Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden

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?

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