Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

ODERLAND. FONTANE

Bernhard Sallmann

Germany, 2016, 72 Min

Bernhard Sallman’s films are solitaires. They elude all conventions, formats and practices. You must open yourself to them. It’s clear from the first image: this is a kind of cinema that has other virtues than narrative and entertainment. The enjoyment comes from concentration and contemplation. The images, arranged as still lives, are rigorously framed and composed so that subtle movements become visible only after long contemplation – sometimes a cloud, sometimes the trembling of leaves. After his Lusatian trilogy the Berlin-based Austrian was drawn to Brandenburg once again: to the Oderbruch, an edenic but treacherous landscape. It’s a cultivated landscape, created by man in the 18th century.

Sallmann found a fellow spirit in the novelist Theodor Fontane. Only their tools are different. What he captures with the camera was recorded with a quill by the hiker and writer in the penultimate century. He wrote about draining the country, settling colonists there, and Albrecht Daniel Thaer’s theory of crop rotation. Anyone who believes that all this is far away is wrong. Translated to today these are the global issues of agrarian policy: emigration and monocropping. Judica Albrecht’s artful narration merges text and images in finely chiselled fashion. Sallman’s film has many messages and one of them is: read Fontane and learn to see! Cornelia Klauß, source: Catalogue DOK Leipzig

Filmformat
DCP | doc. | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Bernhard Sallmann

Kamera
Bernhard Sallmann

Ton
Klaus Barm

Schnitt
Christoph Krüger

Produzent
Bernhard Sallmann

Produktion
Bernhard Sallmann

Kontakt
Bernhard Sallmann Schöneweiderstr. 19
12055 Berlin
030.6857675
bernhard.sallmann@berlin.de

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Movies
DIE FREIHEIT DER BÄUME (2003, short, doc, FFC 2018)
DIE LAUSITZ 20 X 90 (2004, short, doc, FFC 2018)
TRÄUME DER LAUSITZ (2009, FFC 2018)

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