Dore O. – Frühe Werke

Dore O. – Early Works
July 20, 08.00 pm, Arsenal Cinema

The early works of filmmaker and photographer Dore O. form a continuum running between double exposure and deconstruction, dream and travel. The films being shown include JÜM, JÜM (1967), a configuration of movements and colors that Dore O. shot together with her former husband Werner Nekes. A fixed camera films Dore O., who moves up and down in a structural montage, accompanied by a polyrhythmic soundtrack. The deconstruction of a world via montage also appears in ALASKA (1968), with Dore O. filming a sort of dream world and using formal principles in order to depcit a journey into her interior life. Double exposure forms a motif here that is used as means of illustrating Dore O’s relationship to her environment. In KALDALON (1971), these themes come together once again. Dore O. calls this film, which was shot in a glacial lagoon, an adventure film: a melancholy journey of adventure through her consciousness, Iceland and nature. (ana)