Sophia Schachtner

Scenes from the seminar "Lange Sprechen." Angela Schanelec, HFBK Summer Semester 2024.

The motorway roars in the background, darkness lies over the service area. One truck driver smokes; another turns on the light in his sleeper cab. A summer Sunday is dawning, everything is standing still. Precisely designed detail shots induce in us a state of waiting. This is what life on the road can also look like. Cooking, dozing, staring into space. Hair is shorn short, words are exchanged. Polish pop songs resound from one of the cabs.

A young woman cries. A new day begins. Rike works as a painter and varnisher. She wears white work clothes. Every day she takes public transportation to work. She and her colleagues paint walls white. Every movement is clear. After work, she buys herself a bouquet of flowers, and as she walks through the streets, something changes. The world gives her something back.