( Those Who Go Those Who Stay )
Ruth Beckermann
2013 - 75 min - Autriche
Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories — leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean.
Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, an Arab musician in Galilee, nationalists drunk on beer in Vienna, the Capitoline Wolf, and three veiled young women trying for minutes to cross a busy road in Alexandria. Threads, cloth and textiles pop up like book marks in a fabric of movement, of travelling or seeking refuge.
"Those Who Go Those Who Stay" is a story of being on the move, in the world and one’s own life.
Author-Director : Ruth Beckermann
Photography : Nurith Aviv, Georg Weiss, Ruth Beckermann, Johannes Hammel, Peter Roehsler
Sound : Gerhard Daurer
Editing : Ruth Beckermann, Dieter Pichler
Delegate Producer : Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion