WET WEDDING + HEIDEGGER IN AUSCHWITZ

TRIGGER WARNING - FLICKER EFFECT!

WET WEDDING | Jan Daňhel, Jakub Halousek
16mm, b/w, 25 min., 2017

Behind the curtain of the film strip the concreteness of images appears and disappears again with varying levels of visuals shifts and deformations. The sounds of the film’s movement mix with voices that give the scenes context but nevertheless prevent a reconstruction of the fable. – The story dissolves, and during this layering we move further away from it ever being one.

HEIDEGGER IN AUSCHWITZ
16mm, col-b/w, cca 50 min., 2016
image: Ježek, Daňhel, Halousek, Brabcová
sound, editing: Ježek

One of the most important thinkers of 20th century, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, goes on a tour of Auschwitz 40 years after his death. He takes 2,500 photographs during his visit. On his way back he visits Prague and his attention is caught by the tail of a marathon under way, which conspicuously reminds him of a funeral. The following winter, his Jewish lover and one of the most important thinkers of 20th century, Hannah Arendt, rises from the grave as well. With a 16mm camera in her hand, she aimlessly wanders in the area surrounding Heidegger’s chalet in Todtnauberg. She has visions of certain motifs from the great philosopher’s key work, Being and Time. All is arranged in a strictly structural shape. Static in movement, kinetic in stillness.