Der bayerische Ministerpräsident
Zielscheibe No.1 wer nichts abkriegt, hat schon verloren
in chronologischer Reihenfolge
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Nockerberg 2023
nach 4 Jahren Pause
und dann um Mitternacht aus Frankreich eine der alten rettenden Stimmen nochmal mit denen der Ludwig seiner Zeit entdeckt wurde und bis zum Parsifal, der Aufführungsort der NACHT
dies: endlich dies, daneben die autom. Übersetzuung
Dear Mr. Syberberg,
Although no longer understanding your language at all – the language of Kleist ! –, I am overwhelmed by your film and by its message which I will define by this formula: memory is the condition of resurrection. The memory of historical tragedies, but also that of culture without which nothing is possible, without which no resurrection can happen…
It is, it seems to me, to this resurrection that your film invites us to, a resurrection based on an almost alchemical operation where your voice, the timbre of your voice, develops a sort of cinematic fugue with, on the one hand the sacred music (Mozart, Brahms) and on the other hand the different visual perspectives that you bring together, perspectives where the black sun of History finds its counterpoint in the sweetness of the artist's intimacy. (Madame Syberberg's pastries would rush the devil back to the depths of the Earth !)
I have always thought that you and Jean-Luc Godard were the only filmmakers in the world to reinvent cinema with each of your films. But with these Cantos (the admirer of Dante and Ezra Pound that I am appreciates the choice of this word), and thanks to a miraculous use of computing (always the old magic lantern ! ), you give cinema a meaning and a prophetic function. At the end of the film, the «flight» of Edith Clever, carried away by Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, is a tremendous message of hope and rebirth !
Of course, one day I will have to confirm and better argue these first impressions with a copy provided with French subtitles. I hope there are projects in this direction.
To thank you, I would like to offer you a little book of poetry that I published at the end of last year. Where can I send it to you ?
With my best wishes, to You and Mrs Syberberg.
Michel Marmin
12 boulevard Henri Arnauld
49100 Angers
PS.Your art achieves the ideal (and unexpected) synthesis between the cinéma total announced by Marcel Lherbier and the caméra-stylo prophesied by Alexandre Astruc ! And this with the weapons of modernity diverted from their destructive