Jour Sombre Johannes Hammel, 2011
This is the case with Johannes Hammels threepart Jour Sombre. He employed home movies shot in the 1950s and 60s, of trips into the mountains, hikes across a glacier, alpine huts and lakes. We see groups of people spread out across the alpine landscape, in the background the dazzling white of the suns bright reflection from a glacier. Binoculars are pointed upward. At the sky, or the sun Then a bubble appears, filling the picture and virtually swallowing the landscape. Theres a glare, as if a ray of light reflected from the ice were burning directly into the camera lens or our retina. Other bubbles follow, and the entire scene begins to boil. Heinz Ditschs soundtrack encourages this unsettling scenario. In the next part a swimming woman is harassed by nicks and scratches covering large areas, and what was originally idyllic becomes fractured and furrowed like dried clods of dirt. The soundtrack provides fitting crackling and scraping.
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