Second Breath (2005)

Genre :

Runtime : 11M

Director : Holly Zausner

Synopsis

Second Breath presents a portrait of Berlin’s long and intractable history through Holly Zausner’s dramaturgy. Inspired by her time living and working in the city in the 1990s, Zausner created a series of three outsized figures made from rubber silicon and knitted material. This film features Zausner interacting with these figures in a sequence filmed at key landmarks in the city, including the Potsdamer Platz, Neue Nationalgalerie, Spree River, and the now-demolished Palast der Republik. In every scene, we see the heft of the figures counteracting her manoeuvres of them, turning the idea of the body as a metaphor for the weight of history from abstraction to physical reality.

Actors

Holly Zausner
Holly Zausner

Crews

Holly Zausner
Holly Zausner
Director
Jakobine Motz
Jakobine Motz
Director of Photography
Thomas Schick
Thomas Schick
Editor
Studio Mitte Cooperation
Studio Mitte Cooperation
Sound Designer