Traces of movement in front of the ice
René Frölke, DE 2024, 89 min, German/English/French OmeU
The Super8 camera purrs, old tape recordings are played. An apartment full of stacked boxes, heaps of books, magazines, correspondence and handwritten notes. René Frölke elliptically traces what remains in the archive of the defunct Pendo publishing house. Things appear and disappear again, sentences are torn off. In between: the Catholicism of the publisher's founder and the jazz piano playing of his heiress. In this way, the film adapts to the found material and opens up a fragmentary and sensual search for clues using language, images, sound and text. The archive moves, the little things echo: an old letter, the scribbled edges of a book, applause and a laugh from off-screen.
Guest: René Frölke
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