Tristan

When the wall fell the director was, due to her recent marriage, in the process of moving from East to West Berlin; an escape route that suddenly lost its relevance. In TRISTAN a number of opposing elements are combined, from farewell and new beginnings, to compulsion and salvation as old and new collide, providing the opposing poles in a divided country now to be reunified. As ever she captured the events on her Super 8 camera, intertwining documentary footage with staged events to create a deep associative context that is creative, hypnotic and unsettling in equal measure, providing the backdrop to her protagonists' search for identity. A modern reading of the ancient Tristan legend, the film is to be shown in the digitalised version created by the 'Brotfabrik Berlin' in 2009. KF