Looking For Something (Part One: A Winter Visit)
Director Fjodor Donderer
Countries Germany
Duration 12 min
Synopsis
I met a friend at the railway station: after nightmarish visions of the end of the world in his sleep, and after heavy snowfall during the night, he had embarked on a journey to a small town somewhere unknown, a winter visit, with the intention of looking for something in this world, whatever it may be, for consolation, for inspiration, at the sight of the disastrous state this same world is currently in. The film is the record of what he found on this trip into the unforeseen, taking a train, walking through the snow and holding a Super 8 camera. In its narration, it reflects and comments on whatever my friend picked up on his way, with a sceptical but debonair attitude towards the people he met and towards the world with all its contradictions.
I met a friend at the railway station: after nightmarish visions of the end of the world in his sleep, and after heavy snowfall during the night, he had embarked on a journey to a small town somewhere unknown, a winter visit, with the intention of looking for something in this world, whatever it may be, for consolation, for inspiration, at the sight of the disastrous state this same world is currently in. The film is the record of what he found on this trip into the unforeseen, taking a train, walking through the snow and holding a Super 8 camera. In its narration, it reflects and comments on whatever my friend picked up on his way, with a sceptical but debonair attitude towards the people he met and towards the world with all its contradictions.