Konstantin von Sichart

The Earth post-pandemic.

Film sketches compete for the filmmaker's attention, scenarios push each other out of the way. Too much distraction, all the time. A feverishly associative animation about a neurodivergent mind.

In Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humorous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who in 1938 fled Austria into exile in Bombay. This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, claymation and photographs.

Turtleneck Phantasies is a poem that comes to us in fragments in this video. This work is dedicated to the murmuring, the illegible, the unspeakable, the sketches and doodles, fragments of childhood memories, the absurd moments. In other words, all the little forms that are so central to our relationship with the world, but are given relatively little attention.