21,3 °C

Helena Wittmann,

Year:

2014

Format

16mm

Runtime:

16'00

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9

Sound:

Dolby Stereo

Language:

no dialog

Subtitles:

no subtitles

Edition:

Edition #02

Synopsis:

A window. An opposite window facade. A room. Flowers. Luise and a phone call. An action scene. A construction site. A musician.

The room temperature is 21,3°C.

The image of a room, its appearance changing with the shades of light. A window front, seen through the window. Changing flower arrangements on a side table. Sounds, entering the room from outside the frame. A construction site hints at changes in the exterior. Rehearsals. Are the sound waves of the piano reaching us from downstairs or from next door? In 21.3°C Helena Wittmann reduces the filmic elements to the essentials: light, shadow, sound, direction. Out of this minimum, stories emerge that linger, atmospheres that resonate. Little by little the viewer is thrown back upon herself/himself. Through the facing window front someone seems to look back at us. Only the temperature remains the same.

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