Dörte Eißfeldt

With 'AUGENBLICK' (the 'space of an instant'), Franz Reichle has given us a highly unusual work. During turbulent times, two young people find each other, fall in love, fight and ultimately separate. They are looking for new directions and ways of life, taking things one day at a time and squeezing the fulfilment of their desires out of every moment. The 'space of an instant' is surprising in form and style: Reichle positions himself against conventional ways of seeing, and takes an almost anarchic approach to the rules of drama. His point of view is shaped by interior processes: sensations, rather than events, are portrayed in the images appearing on screen. One of the few films which attempts to expand the language of the cinema. Urs Jäggi in Zoom-Filmberater, March 1986.

The eye constantly scans everything in sight, and every image we see is constantly being recomposed from what the fovea has previously stored.

A moment of transition—from office to office: the administration and production of ship propellers gives way to the administration and production of films, the film office. The new Hamburg Filmhaus consists of a wide variety of rooms, staircases, corridors, and halls. Its new use by filmmakers is beginning to spread: posters, telephones, large tables with many chairs, full ashtrays...

For a few days now, Carlo has not been feeling so terribly tired. He is slowly beginning to enjoy this fluctuating position between bed and window. The room becomes his cabin again, drifting lazily along with him. However, Peter's unexpected arrival upsets Carlo; the boy's presence annoys him.