DAY IS DONE
Director Thomas Imbach
Countries Switzerland
Duration 111 min
Synopsis
A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. The man behind the camera, looking for an image. Of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. We hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather, congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.
A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. The man behind the camera, looking for an image. Of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. We hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather, congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.