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Curtains

DCP, 57 minutes
16:9, colour, stereo

Während ich still sitze und nichts tue, kommt der Frühling und das Gras sprießt.

Zenrin Kushu

Eine poetische, abstrakte Montage aus dem eigenen Videoarchiv der letzten Jahre. Eine wohltuende Massage der Augen und des Gehörs. Nicht um die gefilmten Phänomene geht es, sondern um mein Schauen und Horchen darauf. Ein Schauen und Horchen, das sich nach Außen und nach Innen richtet. Grenzen verschwinden, Eigenes spiegelt sich in Anderem, Fremdes wird vertraut. Zeit löst sich auf. Ein Schweben zwischen Himmel und Erde.

Michael Pilz

I feel the same way about writing as I do about editing films. I'm highly self-critical there, too, and (usually) only ‘release’ something once I've gone over it thoroughly, discarded it several times and put it back together again from scratch. When it comes to cutting, the truth is really that there is always only one possible solution! Not two or three, no, just one! The challenge lies in finding that one possible solution. I can't search for it (because all ‘searching’ lures you in all the wrong directions). That’s why I need to carefully watch and listen to the raw material over and over (because often a cut is determined by the sound, and that point – in the audio track – needs to be found, as well). Anything else is just empty puffery.

Michael Pilz, Retrospective 2023, Vienna

Original title Curtains
English title Curtains
Produced by Michael Pilz
Shooting time 2016–2021
Shooting locations Lower Austria, Vienna
Cinematography by Michael Pilz
Original Sound by Michael Pilz
Original language German, English
Intentionally no subtitles
Edited by Michael Pilz

Austria 2021

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