Older people hold their hands in front of their eyes and visualise their loved ones. They try to remember them in detail – with no images to help them, they focus on their other senses and reveal the past: What did he smell like? How did her skin feel on my hands? Hand movements form memories that suddenly manifest themselves physically. As though intoxicated, we become part of realms of experience and the echo of the years of life also becomes our echo when we listen to older people talking about love.

Zara Zerny’s debut film is outstanding, thanks to her ability to gently engage with her protagonists through the use of imagination techniques. The film thus becomes a sharpening of one’s own memory and simultaneously a sensual transmission of multiple perspectives on life. In a society too often disregarding of older bodies, Echo of You focuses on feelings that are experienced and reawakened within bodies. The film creates images as embodiments of states that endure beyond age. It never solely focuses on looking back, but rather on bravely reflecting on what connections the past has built for the present and how time relates to these. Life then appears in a non-linear form that we barely register as we move forward, resulting in a work of art full of hope for the fragments of a language of love.

Guest: Zara Zerny

After the screening, there will be a guided tour of the exhibition »Blick in die Zeit. Age and Ageing in Photographic Portraiture« at the nearby Photographic Collection / SK Stiftung Kultur.
Admission to the guided tour is free.