MET AMOR PH OSEN
A film by Achim Freyer
| Screenplay, Direction, Scenery and Costume Design: |
Achim Freyer |
| Script, Assistant Writer, Assistant Director: |
Johannes Grebert |
| Camera: |
Bodo Kessler |
| Production: |
Manfred Frei |
| Music: |
Eric Satie, Olivier Messiaen, Dieter Schnebel |
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Performers: Zoro Babel, Ralf Harster, Michael Hirsch, Rainer
Homann, Pavel Janicek, Anna Karger, Cornelia Kempers, Lajos Kovacs,
Blanca Modra, Sylvia Rodeck, Jonathan Fuchs, Lucie & Martha
Fuchs, Julia Freyer, Manfred Frei
Speaker: Fritz Hakl
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Length: 80 minutes
Premiere: 44. International Film Festival Berlin, 1994
Showings: Film Festival Munich, Midem Cannes, Experimental Film
Festival Madrid
The film follows the musical principle of theme and variation. Repeatingly
using the same sceneries, new connections constantly develop within
the web of characters, images and music. Everything seems to be in motion,
cyclic and linear: a motion, beginning at the distant sea, moving through
a mythological and visionary Theatrum Mundi to finally end again by
the ocean. Always anew, the profound lightness of Satie's music and
the utmost yearning of Messiaen depict the journey through transforming
sites and mutating figures. Above all we hear a voice in a seemingly
endless monologue, including fragments of fairy-tales, the bible, Dante's
Devine Comedy, Büchner, Dali and others, which interweave, building
a suggestive flow.
Freyer places characters from different theater pieces of his into
landscapes, which transform through these grotesque and surreal creatures
and through the metaphoric compositions of the camera into artificial,
but soulful sceneries. The reality of Freyer's film is an imaginary
reality rather than a naturalistic one. Without following a linear plot
the film takes the audience through a poetic kaleidoscope of human conditions,
desires, archetypical and metaphorical confrontations with death, sin,
love and instinct. A Chinese
puzzle full of beauty and agonizing darkness.
Johannes Grebert
This film, which was produced in Italy in 1991, is part of the repertory
of the Freyer-Ensemble and can be requested as an additional program
to any of its theater pieces.
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