ROSA ROT

by Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER
2001 / Betacam SP / color / sound / 1S / 8' 00




The first in the series PRESSURIZED VACUUM (#1).

ROSA ROT gives two frameworks and two points of view: the abstract one, of a free inner thought as manifested by the visual immersion in a piece of landscape subject to constant change, striated by gales mingled with the incessant fall of thick snowflakes - and that, concrete, wider and distanced but in the same axis of this landscape crossed by the fixed frame of a window, which brings us back to a state of physical confinement while reading Rosa Luxemburg's letter from prison gives further evidence.
As proof that no prison hinders freedom of thought.

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Political commitment to the test of confinement: from the German prison of Wronke, Rosa Luxemburg speaks of nature, poetry and resistance in a letter to Sonja Liebknecht.

Clinamen: "When atoms move straight down through the void by their own weight, they deflect a bit in space at a quite uncertain time and in uncertain places, just enough that you could say that their motion has changed." Lucretius, II

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distribution format Digital file on server (PAL)
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language German
translation French (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 27,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 1,85 - Panoramic (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language German
rental fee 27,00 €