Barbara Meter

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Barbara Meter at IFFR

Laura

Film tells of the life of Laura via the reminiscences of three people close to her.
main programme
Portraits, 1971-1972

The film is like a cubist painting given a time dimension.
Cinema Regained
Song for Four Hands

A man and a woman talk without words in a film dialogue.
Cinema Regained
Appearances

Unknown people gazing out of the photograph or caught unawares. Static, yet in motion, these portraits seem to be between life and death.
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
Convalescing

Convalescing: when one is allowed not to take part in the world. Time to appreciate how much it actually is: to read to dream, to look.
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
Hier Nu

Contemplation of transience with images of landscapes, portraits and the text Lamento by Dutch author Remco Campert.
Spectrum Shorts
From The Exterior

Fragmentary pictures of reality in nocturnal living rooms filmed surreptitiously.
Cinema Regained
Kade

Observations of a docking ship. The optical printer brings people on the quayside closer.
Cinema Regained
Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr

Meter tells the story of her father, e.g. using a series of beautiful drawings from letters he sent from the Eastern Front during World War II.
As Long As It Takes: Short
Ariadne

Film poem of restlessness and desire, targeted at a spinning wheel and Ariadne’s thread.
Short!