Searching for traces

The art scene is the starting point for Grosse Liebe, an early, smug film by Ferry Radax, in which a young painter loses his patron and lover in a mysterious car accident. As he searches for clues at the scene of the accident, he arrives at a gate that leads him into a kind of afterlife. Acoustically, Josef Dabernig's Rosa coeli leads us into a cave or tube - the maw of memory, the abyss of oblivion. A man returns to the place of his childhood, a Moravian village. His father has died, which is the reason for the journey. It triggers a maelstrom of associations about returning, about family. Verschlossene Stube by Theresia Grösslinger blurs and falsifies the traces of a personal family history - the death of the grandmother - in favor of the unfolding of a poetic texture that aims at the universality of death without tipping over into garrulous nihilistic kitsch or bizarre morbidity.

Program
Great Love (Ferry Radax, 1966, 19 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1421/
Rosa coeli (Josef Dabernig, 2003, 24 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1228/ 
Closed Quarters (Theresia Grösslinger, 2004, 27 min.)
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1401/