OH! die vier Jahreszeiten

Camera: Ulrike Pfeiffer, Ute Aurand

With: Ute Aurand, Ulrike Pfeiffer

Aurand and Pfeiffer filmed each other at four famous sites in Europe: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, spinning a young boy again and again through the air in Red Square in Moscow, climbing on a hot day into the waterfall at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, and, as two angels in London, walking through the night of the City. The film begins with a text about improvisation by Jonas Mekas read by himself, „Improvisation is, I repeat, the highest form of concentration, of awareness, of intuitive knowledge, when the imagination begins to dismiss the pre-arranged, the contrived mental structures, and goes directly to the depths of the matter. This is the true meaning of improvisation, and it is not a method at all, it is, rather, a state of being necessary for any inspired creation. It is an ability that every true artist develops by a constant and life-long inner vigilance, by the cultivation – yes! – of his senses.“

Author: 

Year: 

1988

Country: 

Germany
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Optical

Length: 

22 minutes

Distribution/sales: 

Arsenal Distribution

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