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Winterreise
Elleni Sclavenitis
2015 - 4 min - HD - Couleur - France
Elleni Sclavenitis
2015 - 4 min - HD - Couleur - France
English summary
“Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling”. Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Childhood Around 1900”
Set to Franz Schubert’s “Im Dorfe" from the Winterreise song cycle, this film contemplates memory and disappearance in the urban landscape of Berlin's Schöneberg neighborhood. This is where Walter Benjamin wrote “Berlin Childhood Around 1900” before his exile from Germany.