Christina Friedrich

The magical space is an aspect of my thinking. I want to narrate the simultaneity of the invisible and the visible on the screen. The state between being awake, dreaming and sleeping is the state of storytelling. This is a vertical narrative principle; to follow it, you need to cross a transitive space.

I am fascinated by the deep, dark Harz and the landscapes that intertwine there in wide lines of sight and chains of hills. There is so much hidden here, as a collective memory space. I cannot overlook the speed at which political erosion is occurring.

Silence has settled like mildew over everything, including history. That is the silence I grew up with, too. One you could even sense physically. I’m searching for the language of the body. 

Then I aim to fill the cinematic horizon with narratives that transcend time and space, bound to us, and recount the collision of characters who touch upon the very limits of society and the cosmos. 

The power of the images is linked to the archaic landscape, but also to a narrative clarity and reduction.