Reise durch die Nacht

Katie Mitchell turns Mayröcker’s epic poetry of feminist empathy into a stupendous study of very contemporary attributions of identity. On a broadband film set, bustling performers reproduce these “flashes of memory” in fascinating moments of live cinema. These seem to coherently reveal the protagonist’s life as she seeks to take hold of it in her stream of consciousness. Moving, oppressive and a little perfidious. Because, watch out: What seizes us and makes us believe that we have grasped a biography is no more than a few gestures, glances, stereotypical highlights on marital frustration and daddy issues. If we think that is enough to signify a life – good night, indeed.

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