Conference Hall, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo g. 3
Nida LT-93127
Anna Lugmeier & Laura Weissenberger-Silva
Memories of a Camera Perspective
(16:9, digital HD, 28 min.)
“Memories of a Camera Perspective” is an audio-visual poem dedicated to the process of film editing entering a space of intimacy with sound and image material. By looking into the oyster shell as a vessel for a filmic Séance the film turns the camera’s phallic attributes of the lens inside out. It is a film dreaming, summoning kinship to early feminist filmmakers and seeking for new frameworks of image (re)production. We are looking at exhausted images, the role of the female film maker and at a desperate love-letter to a camera perspective, yet to come.
This poetic essay film raises questions of how to commit to a feminist film practice while dealing with systematic burnout and exhaustion from a professional field that implies a constant disconnection from its motif. Through script and editing, a space for negotiations of vulnerability opens up – cinematic tools, usually perceived as hidden parts of a film and are therefore all the more capable, of inverting scenes to make female perspective production become visible.
This essay film is part of our ongoing filmic research “Baubo, when our Lips speak Together”.