Carmen is a bizarre yet tender and sincere love story that few would actually understand. Cinema and meta-cinema meet in this short and precious documentary by Anja Salomonowitz, and together they create a beautiful as well as melancholic contemporary tale. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
On the occasion of the Viennale 2019, director Anja Salomonowitz presented the experimental documentary This Movie is a Gift, dedicated to the artist Daniel Spoerri and focusing in particular on his job and his works, which are made entirely from everyday objects that are no longer used. Cinema Austriaco had the opportunity to have a chat with her and learn more about her latest film and her important career. Interview by Marina Pavido.
In This Movie is a Gift, Anja Salomonowitz is not afraid to find new languages, to reinvent and rediscover herself. All this results in a true, feather-light hymn to life, one of the director’s most intimate and personal works. A film that accepts and elaborates on every aspect of life in an intelligent and never predictable way. Including death. At the Viennale 2019.
If we think that Anja Salomonowitz made It happened just before twelve years ago, we sadly realise how intelligently prophetic it was and how incredibly topical it still is today.