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Between 1988 and 1995 Neuwirth kept a video diary of his travels through Tibet. This production is a very condensed adaptation, a kind of photo album, 23 minutes long, that you enter as soon as you open it. It rapidly becomes clear that this not something like ‘Highlights of Tibet’, but an atmospheric description made from very close by. The daily events take place against a background of Chinese suppression, as is evident in the prologue. The filmed details of ordinary life grab the attention in rhythmical scenes, but without a story line or other sequence. The 35 ‘photos’ in the album are all exactly the same length. The direct sound is heard at normal speed, but because of the intentional delay in the image, you never see exactly what you hear. Often it is the sound of the entire surroundings while the camera is concentrating on a water kettle, a face or the packaging on the shelves of a shop. This form makes it seem as though more is being transmitted than the eye or the ear can observe. Hence the subtitle of ‘Tibetische Erinnerungen’, which gives the four Tibetan words for television: form, seeing, atmosphere, transmission.
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Lies Holtrop
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Sound Dietmar Schipek, Thanks to Medienwerkstatt Wien, Production Loop TV-Video-Film
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