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In close-up and slow motion, we see a hand put a key into a keyhole, turn the key in order to open the door with a swinging movement. A threatening drone in the background makes the action disturbing and this adds the necessary stress. The tension as to what is going on behind the door or what will be discovered there is not paid off. A number of story lines and the accompanying decors are variably interwoven. The stories are told in English, German, Spanish and Chinese (or Vietnamese?). The close-up of actions are often in slow motion. It’s as if the image is seen shrouded, a kind of absent vagueness. One story fragment, told in German, English and Spanish, is about a woman looking for an old man who can’t stop singing a particular song, but when she visits him on another occasion, he can’t remember anything about it. Access, the door, to the past remains locked for him. Thus the tape with its references to different cultures gives you the feeling that amnesia has become a global affliction.
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Willem van Weelden
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Light, Camera, Editing Stuart Bender, Sound, Music Angelo Funicelli, With Nancy Buchanan, Dan Chan, Juan Guardiola, Franke von der Horst
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