Sabine Schirdewahn
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Moving image, mixed media, 2003
It is June 22, 1938: Walter Benjamin returns to Svendborg, Bertolt Brecht's Danish exile, for the second time since 1934. Benjamin stays in a room in the neighborhood, remains in Denmark for the entire summer and does not leave again until mid-October.
Encounter in Svendborg 1938 - Searching for Memory is based on a montage of photographs taken in the garden of Skovsbostrand, the home of Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht at the time.
Under the authentic archive material lined a film sequence shot in the same setting in the summer of 2004. The photomontage is like a layer on the film and allows the movement to penetrate the surface at various points in changing and varying intensity. The moving image is accompanied by the sounds of nature.
Please send me an e-mail if you would like to watch the video: info(at)sabineschirdewahn(dot)de