WORKS
Winter, Blumen, Garten
On People and Names
Lake Watchers
THE BEAUTY OF BECOMING
mein eigenes Bild
we are like plants seeking the light
Background Noise
Imaginary Spaces
ABOUT
CONTACT
Sara finds a diary film and several film letters at the amateur department of the Austrian Filmmuseum, where she works. The films are made by Renate, a woman Amateur Filmmaker, who was active between the 60 ‘s and 90 ‘s. Sara and Renate start to exchange film letters that cross past and present time, archival footage of amateur films is interlaced with current analog material. The film acquires an essayistic dimension by raising the question of what is consider to be amateur filmmaking and what is professional, as well as what is worth to archive and what isn’t.
The early development of this project was funded by the Startstipendium für Filmkunst (BKMOES), while the treatment and scriptwriting has been awarded with the ScripLAB Docu scholarship by the drehbuchFORUM Wien.
This project was part of the Pitching & Matchmaking for BIPOC Filmmakers and Production Companies workshop with Vic So Hee Alz, organized by Gewächshaus Network at Diagonale 2024.
The production of the film will start in November 2024 and it has been funded by the MA7 (Vienna) and the BMKOES (Austria).