Syracuse
GER 2004-2015, 85 min
Based on poems by Durs Grünbein.
Synopsis
Poet Durs Grünbein and filmmaker Klaus Wyborny have come together in a project that is as exciting as it is challenging. To combine the poetic work of one with the cinematographic work of the other, to allow them to flow into each other, to unfold together. The word and the image, language and the world. SYRACUSE is neither an illustration of the one nor a commentary on the other, but a sensitive whole, an inventive back and forth and a poetic simultaneity. Caught up in history, the old witnesses, the ruins and the sunlight and street noise.
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Language: German with English subtitles
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Press reviews
Since 2004, filmmaker Klaus Wyborny and lyric poet and essayist Durs Grünbein have been working on a project aiming to translate poems by Grünbein into film. They start out at a point where antiquity and present overlap. The film was shot at locations of major importance for european history, some with a mythical connotation: Rome, Perugia, Cumae, Syracuse, Martigny, Rimini, Fano, Cape Sounion and Athens, whose many facets are evoked in this film. Starting out from their own specialty, the two artists approach a phenomenon that fuses their respective art forms to form a third: a composite consisting of film and poetry. - Viennale 2012
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Credits
Director, Screenplay, Camera, Sound, Editing
Klaus Wyborny
With
Durs Grünbein
Production
Typee-Film
World Premiere
02.11.2012, Wien, IFF Viennale
Distribution Details
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