Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot

Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot film is the sixth episode in the serial-based project X Characters, which revolves around the attempt to update the identities of iconic female film characters.
A new version of Hari from Andrej Tarkovsky’s Solaris encounters two other undead from film history: Godard's Nana and Antonioni’s Giuliana who, following a sex change, has now become Julian. Lost in an abandoned forest clearing, the three characters attempt to put an end to their past: to “find their end,” to “bury history,” to kill themselves, to beat each other to death. The plot is organized around a burial that never comes to a close and so becomes an endless burial loop. The three characters are captured again and again in a present that repeats in variations.

Constanze Ruhm is an artist, filmmaker, and curator living in Vienna and Berlin. Her films have been shown four times in the Forum Expanded program and once in the Forum program.

Director Constanze Ruhm. Screenplay Constanze Ruhm. Cinematography Dirk Lütter. Editing Christine Lang, Constanze Ruhm. Music Ekkehard Ehlers. With Irina Kastrinidis, Dominic Oley, Judith van der Werff, Gudrun Gut, Erika Hasselberg, Dana Bieler.

Films: 1999: Apartment (18 min.), Evidence (5 min.). 2001: A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight (26 min.). 2004: X Characters / RE(hers)AL 2003–2004 (62 min.), X NaNa / Subroutine (30 min.). 2005: Travelling / Plan 234 / Extérieur Nuit 1999-2005 (3 min.). 2007: X Love Scenes / Pearls without a String (58 min., Forum Expanded 2007). 2010: Crash Site / My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (69 min., Forum Expanded 2010). 2012: Kalte Probe / Cold Rehearsal (with Christine Lang, 90 min., Forum Expanded 2013). 2015: Invisible Producers. Kapitel 1: Panoramis / Paramount / Paranormal (with Emilien Awada, 59 min., Forum Expanded 2015), Comparing Local Spectres (18 min.). 2019: Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo / The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror That Travels through Time (72 min, Forum 2020), Le cinque punti della malavita (8 min.). 2020: Pearls Without a String (72 min). 2023: A Shard is a Fragment of a Life (video installation, 23 min.), Dark Mirrors Turning Brighter (3 min.). 2024: È a questo punto che nasce il bisogno di fare storia (96 min.), A Woman’s Work is Never Done (video installation, 12 min.).

Forum Expanded catalog 2010

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