Renate

“Daily life and fantasy, side by side, that is great”, says Renate Sami, a filmmaker and political activist since the sixties. In a free floating stream of images, Aurand edits together 16mm footage of Sami that does not invoke the ghosts of the past but rather creates a joyful, flickering encounter with a vivid woman full of ideas. As Sami quotes a text from late lyricist Friederike Mayröcker’s Stillleben about the displeasure of change, Aurand establishes a fairly ironic contrast to Sami, whose first film was about the iconic RAF-member Holger Meins, while her whole cinematic oeuvre revolves around questions of resistance and poetry. (Gunnar Landsgesell)

In the presence of Ute Aurand.
This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1: INHERITANCES.