Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11)
Katharina Schlothauer
Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) by Christoph Schlingensief
DEU 2011, Berlinale Shorts
A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial sequence dissipates in an intoxicating rush, only to resurface, ghost-like, in a third sequence. Nothing is finished, not even the intertitles. Everything is emerging. Or decaying.
Schlingensief despairs at his protagonists who are standing in front of his camera, in the way, so to speak. He curses, dances across the screen, repeating himself, again and again. He wipes the lens, searching for a moment between the images.
An ‘un-making-of’ that tells us more about the death of a story than a story about the death of a story ever could. Christoph Schlingensief: “Once more: everybody has to learn that sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story. And then it’s perfect.”
Schlingensief despairs at his protagonists who are standing in front of his camera, in the way, so to speak. He curses, dances across the screen, repeating himself, again and again. He wipes the lens, searching for a moment between the images.
An ‘un-making-of’ that tells us more about the death of a story than a story about the death of a story ever could. Christoph Schlingensief: “Once more: everybody has to learn that sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story. And then it’s perfect.”
Additional information
Berlinale Shorts IV
Full house later at night.
Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 13, 2012
Frieder Schlaich, Aino Laberenz
The producer of the film and the wife of the deceased director Christoph Schlingensief after the screening.
Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 17, 2012