Travels in his own room
The first words, even before the first image appears. A voice whines something difficult to understand, rhymes from another world. The light goes on, Gerhard Amanshauser sits at a large microphone. This is the beginning of Travels in His Own Room, with an exposition which takes up a motif from the genre of writer portraits – the mythos of the voice and the ritual of reading – and gives it new life. The fact that Amanshauser´s condition (he suffers from Parkinson´s disease) plays a central role may appear to be something of a paradox. The disease distorts the meaning...
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Orig. Title
Reisen im eigenen Zimmer
Reisen im eigenen Zimmer
Year
2006
2006
Country
Austria
Austria
Duration
57 min
57 min