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Edge Hill University
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U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Heidi Kumao
I have not been afraid of going blind for a long time
Yannick Mosimann
Bern, Switzerland | 2021 | 134 | DCP
United States Premiere
“Today, a flock of starlings swooshed past overhead. / In my mind, I repeat the sound over and over, / while I watch the footage.” Filmmaker Yannick Mosimann captures his environment with the camera, fearing he might be losing it more and more. Strict rules about using the entire clip length and its original audio track inform the editing process. The tableaus and their insistence on duration create a pull into an increasingly isolated state of perceiving the outside world in its unspectacular yet strangely unfamiliar intensity.