Elle

Employing a rare fragility of image, sound, and editing, Luise Donschen captures the mysterious fleetingness of the places we pass through and the people we meet. It’s almost as if ELLE was made by the plants in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens which are visited by a father and a child. After naming the roses of the garden, they each have short encounters with humans and plants. Even if they don’t speak the same language as the trees, bushes, and the Japanese people they meet, something is communicated between them. For lack of a better word, we might call it a sense of being alive. (Patrick Holzapfel)

In the presence of Luise Donschen.
This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 4: THE SCOPE OF DREAMS.