Section: Close Up: Armenia

LANDSHAFT

LANDSHAFT

Daniel Kötter
DE/AM, 2023, 96 Min

A contemplative journey across eastern Armenia. Magnificent landscapes, devastated souls: the psychogeographical upheavals of several wars find expression in the tableau-like landscape shots, and yet no landscape is vast enough to absorb the collective pain that dwells in the wounded souls here.

#doc #political #landscape

Performance

2024-11-07 | 10:00
Stadthalle
2024-11-07 | 18:00
Obenkino

The conversations of the two men, who drive their Lada across the breathtaking wintry landscapes, revolve around soldiers, military service, and abandoned villages: the war with Azerbaijan is just as omnipresent here as the genocide of 1915. They also reflect on the more peaceful Soviet period and who the land they are currently traversing actually belongs to. Here, whilst two enemy countries pursue their territorial interests, international corporations pursue those of a more economic nature. Kötter: “Landshaft depicts the psychogeography of a geopolitically charged landscape and its inhabitants caught between extractivism, war and expulsion. Taking the form of a journey across eastern Armenia, the film accompanies human and non-human actors as they traverse a landscape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, the latter under Azerbaijani occupation since the Karabakh war of 2020."

Text: Bernd Buder

07.11.2024 | 10:00 | Stadthalle (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

07.11.2024 | 18:00 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

Supporting film: THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES (Armine Anda, AM 2023, 12 Min)

Drehbuch
Daniel Kötter
Kamera
Daniel Kötter
Ton
Armen Papyan, Hayk Galstyan
Schnitt
Daniel Kötter
Musik
Sarer Kaghechem, Gusam Sheram
Produzent
Daniel Kötter
Daniel Kötter

Daniel Kötter - Daniel Kötter has been working as a theater and documentary film director for 20 years in changing collaborations with artists and collectives of various genres. Interdisciplinary and collaborative, documentary and performative practices repeatedly take him to the African continent, but also to the Middle East, North America and Southeast Asia.

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