77
2022
filmstills:
77 is a film-sound cenotaph (an empty grave; in contrast to a grave, a cenotaph functions solely as a sculptural memorial and does not contain any mortal remains), which commemorates the events in heilbronn at the end of the second world war. for the film, visual and sonic traces were sought in the heilbronn city area (sonically not only with field recordings, but also with the help of the heilbronn vocal ensemble alto e basso), which are dedicated to remembrance and create space for collective remembrance:
sculptures that preserve the memory of moments in time; empty places that embody the memory of people and situations caused by people; still images that make time itself visible by filming (instead of photographing), that memorialise the place with the memory of itself; bodies that create space for the memory of the bodies of the past through their stillness. fragmentary traces that attempt to merge the different temporalities (of memory and the present) as a film sculpture.
concept, film, music: johannes schropp
choir: alto e basso (conductor: matthias böttcher)
commission by the cities archive heilbronn and Förderkreis Heilbronn für Neue Musik e.V.