Burning Bright

"It's time to be alone" says a young woman.

The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times. Dala-Floda, Sweden, has 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year. Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need for a beginning and an end. A ninety-year-old woman shows a way out of the never-ending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel completely at zero again".

Lars Grip performs the main characters: Eurykles von Athen, a child, the Frenchman, Pythias and the ordained priest of finance.

Question: An improvised film about an improvised play, is it not a Schrödinger cat? Answer: No it's a play by Tristan Honsinger.

"We realize History principally as the struggle of social classes and society as the very last cause of all forms of destiny its members can know" - Bertolt Brecht

At the dawn of time, explorers set out to examine the world. And even if the geographical limits of our small planet have long since been determined, there are still people who discover the world afresh.

A reflection on the landscape and a dialogue with the welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Images are in-camera editing, three Super 8 cartridges of three minutes by chapter. All four chapters or ‘territories’ are dialectical connexions between sound and image, improvisation related to the image, and montage thought through the sound.

60 Berlin community members — including children, teenagers and adults, professional and amateur artists from various disciplines — address music, movement and poetry to explore questions of home and belonging, dream and utopia, and experiences of trauma in this 20‑minute collaborative experimental film.