This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from April 18 to April 30, 2023. Please note: This film will only be available in Germany.

Su Friedrich has collected everyday observations over a period of several years here: life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of New York, community festivals, the loss of loved ones, protests in public spaces. A collection of audio-visual moments, often up-close and personal. In one sequence, a band plays in downtown Dortmund, where Friedrich was invited to present a film at IFFF Dortmund+Köln. The detailed shots and moments are set against broader contexts – the Trump administration, the outbreak of the pandemic – which repeatedly filter through but without dominating. Time gathers pace and is then stretched out in Friedrich’s film. As the person behind the camera, she herself is the frame of reference for the audience. How does observation work via the camera? What becomes visible and what is relevant? What is brought into view over a period of several years? Friedrich makes her own perspective the centre of this, commenting via words within the image, not just with her voice. She arranges the images of everyday life into a symphony that embraces the plea to live in the moment. The result is a beautiful collage that represents a selection and an exercise in equivalence. Grief, activism, living together are lined up and file past.