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Film Details
Country:
United States
Category:
International Short
Genre:
Personal Story
Festival Year:
2026
Filmmaker:
Petra Kuppers
Film Transcript
The car is upside down. It has slid on black ice. I can't remember. Rotate, rotate, rotate. A cocoon of seat belt crisscrossed over my breasts, holding me. Blood drops seep from my wrist wounds. A red lake begins to congeal. Emergency vehicles flash across the white field. I can't remember faces: the driver, maybe hands, maybe a wolf sitting by the motorway side in the deep field, looking at me as I awake to the flashing lights. What have you run away with? What is lost beneath the skidding tyres? What is smashed beneath the roof? The world is upside down and there is no home for me in this world.
I become a bird of paradise stalking the streets of Hamburg in strange eye makeup. I sleep with the organist. Wolf watches me now as I remember the gap. Remember the fact that I forgot. Even if I can never recover that life from that year, I did not remember to remember that year 30 years ago. A broken line, a nonconformity in the rock strata. Upheaval as red magma pours into the rift. Old material crumbles atop newer memories. I dream that ice melts in the earth's heat. Beneath the ground, flowers, geothermal warmth: a watery mother that welcomes my frozen limbs.
Filmmaker
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