Frann-Mau-Ich
Maria Luz Olivares Capelle concentrated on experimental work with young people. The director staged a kind of casting, for which she drew up various procedures. Thus, for example, she had young, non-professional actors take on various gender roles or had them look silently into the camera for several minutes at a time. The director made impressive use of the setting of documentary casting in order to free these non-professional actors from their acting mask at certain moments. Maria Luz Olivares Capelle comments on her approach to the project:
I found intimacy to be very interesting as a guiding theme and quite appropriate for the work of filmmaking. I had never given it any thought, but in the course of our reflections during the workshop, I realized that intimacy was something that the cinema machine merely toys with most of the time.
One might say that it is usually a matter of trying to let the filmed world go on functioning as intimately as it would if the camera was not there. In this sense, one might venture to summarize the work with actors as working to attain a state of intimacy in their performance.
(To see the video clip, click on the first picture on the right.)
