Vagabonding Images
One Last Glimpse
Shot in Super 8 over a period of several years, this "experimental" work weaves a series of visual fragments into fleeting, miniature stories that reflect on the nature of perception, memory, time, and dreams. Buoyed by voices reciting texts of Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, and André Breton, Vagabonding Images plays with the forms of cinematic language as it takes inspiration from the poetic collage techniques of the French Surrealists and Japanese haiku.
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One Last Glimpse (Augenblick)
Directed by Doris Dörrie.
Germany, 1997, video, color, 59 min.
German with English subtitles.
In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie’s film Am I Beautiful? in Spain. With One Last Glimpse, part of a five-film documentary series titled "Thinking about Germany," Dörrie explores the very intimate process of mourning her loss and struggling to resurface into life again. Constantly on the move, Dörrie observes the social environment that surrounds her, trying to find a sense of the present. She interviews a friend who emigrated to America years ago but returned to Germany and another who lost his wife in a car accident while vacationing in the U.S. In seeking closure, she also revisits the set in Spain and the hospital in which her husband died.