Thomas Imbach has made a Fenstergucker film. Of these, there are some, Kurt Kren, David Rimmer, John Smith and Karl Kels have already filmed what happened outside her window. Imbach differs from them in several ways: a) is his film with two hours much longer, the other examples are all short or medium-length films, b) Imbach focuses not only on a place, but finds a surprising number of different places, settings and places. In the other, the place is outside the window is often also the title of the film, "Real Italian Pizza" in Rimmer, "Worst Case Scenario" (sausage and cheese) at Smith c) Imbach is someone who places value on the camera and to be themselves felt: always shakes the setting, the pans are clumsy, aperture rows are drawn. The recordings are, however, all of impressive quality, but in time before you get immersed in the picturesque sunset, he called back by a correction the camera back to mind; d) on the soundtrack can be heard answering his calls, he has recorded over a period of more than ten years. Window films are risky. Everyone knows this, observing the goings on the street, discovered details, try it from a safe distance of his camera. Worse, they are a metaphor for a more despicable kind of director: watching from a safe distance secretly people. Window films tend to subordinate the scene her eyes, she rhythmically to make their material (David Rimmer). In "Day is Done" but something else happened. Through the recordings of the answering machine, the collages are uncommented and gradually but to give a picture to Imbach makes itself the object of the film. The view outside is the answer Imbach, he stands between the calls and his gaze. And so the outside is not merely material, but said its author. And I'm happy collected for two hours with him.
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| The only production that affords Imbach: the elegant "postmistress" |
Day Is Done
Dir: Thomas Imbach, Switzerland, 2011, Forum
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