World Festival Premiere

Following the recent death of L, an artist friend from home, who allegedly suffered from schizophrenia for more than 15 years, the artist talks to L through an imagined letter exchange, where they confront each other on notions of home, vulnerability, resistance, memory, and fraught relations. Centering on an architectural model of the artist’s childhood room, the film is entirely shot on super 8mm and accompanied by an immersive recording at the artist’s home, as well as original music from London-based experimental group Langham Research Centre. The film draws from archival footage from journalistic report on May 1968, early artist filmmakers’ home videos, as well as makes references to late 1960s structural cinema that prioritises light and space, as an autonomous site for resistance.

• Programm Programme: International Competition 8