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SIE

Alexander Schellow

animation, b&w, 16:9, no language, BE/DE, 2023, 105’

Hand-drawn frame by frame from memory, SIE (She) invites the viewer to encounter a person who meets their gaze without seemingly being able to look back at them. In and in-between 70.000 drawings made over the past 20 years, Alexander Schellow reconstructs 105 minutes of the face of his grandmother. Born in 1913 in Königsberg, she died in a home for people with dementia in Berlin at the age of 102. The intertwined streams of remembering and forgetting form a space of immersive sound and image. They unfold an impossible cinematic archive – a place inhabited by disparate temporalities. Yet, together with the perpetually transforming cartography of black spots and acoustic traces questions of response-ability, care, representation and embodied history are set into movement across the projection screen.

On Dec 15 2024, during Age d’Or, a special audio cassette is released with the soundtrack of SIE by Laszlo Umbreit. For your cassette purchases you can contact Laszlo Umbreit.

Animation Alexander Schellow
Soundtrack Laszlo Umbreit

SIE has been on display at:

ONE SHOT International Short Film Festival Yerevan, (AM) Saturday, Jun 8 2024 Courtisane Gent, (BE) Sunday, Mar 31 2024 Pavilion of Albania Venice, (IT) Friday, Sep 15 2023