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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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!