Recollection of Time | Filme und Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

Remembering is a process. The filmmakers Tatiana Lecomte, Pınar Öğrenci and Maya Schweizer have used different artistic strategies to make this visible. On the one hand, they trace the echoes of the past with almost seismographic meticulousness and, on the other, demonstrate the inadequacy of "rapprochement".

In A Murderous Noise, French filmmaker Tatiana Lecomte arranges a kind of acoustic workshop situation for contemporary witness Jean-Jacques Boijentin, who reports on his forced labor under the Nazis in 1944. How to deal with the memories, how to uncover them? Instead of archive images or documents, Lecomte uses sounds that trigger a stream of associations, leaving room for the unspeakable.

Maya Schweizer, who also works with film and video, is also of French origin and lives in Germany. In her double projection Regarde par ici, ...Und dort die Puschkinallee, she uses the hatch of a GDR border watchtower as a lens to document seemingly everyday activities that unfold an ambiguous meaning in the historically connoted space.

The film Glück auf in Deutschland by Berlin-based artist Pınar Öğrenci is based on photographs from the collection of the Ruhr Museum Essen from the years 1950 to 1987. In the interplay between the photos and depictions of working and living conditions in coal mining, Pınar Öğrenci examines the myth of the Ruhr region by pointing out the gaps.

A murderous noise, 2015, 21 min, by Tatiana Lecomte

Regarde par ici, ...And there the Puschkinallee, 2018, 25 min, by Maya Schweizer

Glück auf in Deutschland, 2024, 39 min, by Pınar Öğrenci

All films in original version with English subtitles

Discussion with Tatiana Lecomte, Pınar Öğrenci, Maya Schweizer

Moderation: Dorothee Wenner

In English language

As part of the EMOP Opening Days