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A spider crawls on Lisa’s (Liliane Amuat) back and Mara (Henriette Confurius) creates uninterrupted surface from Lisa’s back, her shoulders, her clothes to Mara’s hand.
They exchange the spider hand to hand in smooth, lyrical motions and then transfer it back on the wall.
It’s the new Zürcher brothers’ film, Das Mädchen und die Spinne or The Girl and the Spider, premiering at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival.
And just like this smooth transition of movements and energies where there would otherwise be chaos, the brothers craft another tale within interiors (like their earlier feature The Strange Little Cat) with abundant chaotic forces at play but with filmmaking that is fluid and always in control, showing a lot and trusting us to take in little by little.
André M. Hennicke) and his younger assistant Jan (
Flurin Giger) are making their presence noisily known, and their romantic interests too. Meanwhile, an older downstairs neighbour Kerstin (
Dagna Litzenberger Vinet) forms an unlikely love triangle with Jan and Mara.
There’s a growing form of experimental filmmaking called the ‘desktop documentary’, depicting the sometimes detail-ridden screens of our computers and phones. The opening shot is just that: an architect’s floor plan of the apartment, with a cursor hovering across the diagram’s parallel lines. Apt for a work that features an extended, surreal dialogue riff on ‘.pdf’ file formats,
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