Catalogue des films de « Barbara Meter »

A film as a memory that eludes us, made up of impressions and moods. It all passes by, like the wind, like shadows and smoke. "Maybe only a touch remains, mist, fragments, shadows and a glimpse of somebody who was near." (Barbara Meter)

A film made up of old photographs and films in which past and present merge. "In different countries on markets and in stuffy bookshops, I found old cards and photos, depicting families, portraits of aunts and pater familias, children, a group of...

A film poem of restlessness and desire, targeted at Ariadne's thread. "Moving sprockets, wheels, threads, hands and feet could suggest a wish to escape – but it could also be the unrest of being hopelessly in love, or Ariadne weaving the thread...

"Arriving at an island is a joy forever. The magic of ships when they dock, the expectation on the quays, the exciting theatre of the people with and without their vehicles, the saying hello and goodbye are everyday experiences on the Greek...

"It is always the same: the eternal sea, the blinding light, the trees in bloom, the people, the music... And each time I want to hold it, it escapes me. The images are often held for a while and then left to themselves – only to fade out just...

"Convalescing is a blessed non-activity, when you don’t have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream away, to look, to enjoy a color – the blue, the light of the television, the blue, the book, the patterns the light, the blue –...

An image of early twentieth century Germany rises from a collage of family photographs. Meter re-filmed the photo albums of her parents, who had to flee Hitler’s Germany. "I used to look intensely at all those faces, trying to transfer myself...

Departure on Arrival is a merging of past and present. "[...] The transience of time is maybe the main subject of this film. It incorporates fragments of my ancestry and abstract parts [...] Although I had a plan when starting it, it is also made...

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour, unexpected camera movements.

"In "Penelope", a state of waiting is depicted in long stretches of time going by. […] Penelope waiting years for Odysseus to return was a model for women, waiting for their men to come home from war, from the pub after work, from their...