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Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 16:30
Written by:
Susann Maria Hempel
Cinematography:
Berta Valín Escofet
Editing:
Susann Maria Hempel
Sound:
Susann Maria Hempel
Music:
Susann Maria Hempel
Producer:
Susann Maria Hempel
Romanian premiere
SEVEN TIMES A DAY WE COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR FATE AND AT NIGHT WE GET UP TO AVOID OUR DREAMS (Best Film Award - German Competition Oberhausen 2014) turns to look at a traumatized psyche of a victim of abuse. Fully embracing its subjective form, Hempel narrates the film’s intimate diary-entries and retreats further into the mind of her character by crafting her mise-en-scène with phantasmagorical bric-a-bracs pulled by strings. Hempel’s mesmerizing puppet-show convincingly describes the psychological and physical abuse, drawing the viewer down its downward spiral with childlike fortitude. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
Born in 1983 in Greiz / former GDR, SUSANN MARIA HEMPEL studied media art & design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2001-2009), was a member of the artist group "Theaterhaus Weimar" between 1999-2009, and received several grants for her video works (mainly realised in and/or about her hometown, Greiz). Her filmography includes: THE CRYING THIRD ESSAY (2008), THE MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO CRY FICTION (2009), ASLEEP IN THE DEEP EXPERIMENTAL (2010), THE FLIES (THE BIRDS II) (2010), THE WORLD IN STILLNESS CLOUDED EXPERIMENTAL (2012) and THE BIG ROT (2013).
Contact:
mari_ash01[at]hotmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Best Contribution to the German Competition Prize - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2014
- Minister of Fine Arts Promotion Prize (National Competition) - Filmfest Dresden, Germany 2014
- Jury Award (German Competition) - Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2014
- "EMAF-MEDIENKUNST-PREIS" of the German Critics - European media Art Festival Osnabrück 2014
- Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury (National Competition) - Dresden International Short Film Festival 2014
Curator's comment:
The re-enactment of a specific East German post-1989 experience. Its horror and cruelties are performed with fragments of an exploded doll’s house. In simple kinetics set in motion by nylon strings, objects and parts of dolls become actors in a scenario of suffering and sexual abuse. In SEVEN TIMES A DAY WE COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR FATE AND AT NIGHT WE GET UP TO AVOID OUR DREAMS, the artist and director Susann Maria Hempel constructs a drastic tableau of Thuringian case studies, moving with the sureness of a sleepwalker between various object levels, idiomatic speech, writing and singing. The sexual charge lies not only in the accusations of traumatisation suffered in the past, it also emerges in a strong fascination with transgression. Horror and cuteness are inextricably linked. (Jury Statement - German Competition, Oberhausen Film Festival 2014)
The re-enactment of a specific East German post-1989 experience. Its horror and cruelties are performed with fragments of an exploded doll’s house. In simple kinetics set in motion by nylon strings, objects and parts of dolls become actors in a scenario of suffering and sexual abuse. In SEVEN TIMES A DAY WE COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR FATE AND AT NIGHT WE GET UP TO AVOID OUR DREAMS, the artist and director Susann Maria Hempel constructs a drastic tableau of Thuringian case studies, moving with the sureness of a sleepwalker between various object levels, idiomatic speech, writing and singing. The sexual charge lies not only in the accusations of traumatisation suffered in the past, it also emerges in a strong fascination with transgression. Horror and cuteness are inextricably linked. (Jury Statement - German Competition, Oberhausen Film Festival 2014)