The film situates the action in the street: the video tells the story of a passer-by who becomes witness of a series of events without ever becoming part of things. Like Alice from Lewis Carroll’s novel, who maintains her position as observer and tries to understand the functioning of a world which is alien, here the protagonist plays the role of spectator, exactly as the viewers in the exhibition – strangers from another world. The work also investigates the idea of timelessness, as usual in von Brandenburg’s practice, which – as the artist herself has stated – attempts “to situate the action out of time and play with different epochs”.
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter.
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters.
What does it take to say a word of love? How long and how much strength does it take for the heart to speak? How many streets at night? How fast? How many faces in how many bars? What tenderness? What pain? What music? What images in the mind? And where does it come from? Is it in the darkness of a closed park at night? In the back room of a Chinese bar? In the bottom of a beer? In a collective dance? In a sister's laughter? When does it finally happen? For the soul to let go.
