Film Programme
This is a dream not of a common language, but of a powerful infidel heteroglossia

🎬 Plant (879 pages, 33 days) 

2020 [14’ 45”]

• Australia
• Original language: German
• Script/editing/camera/sound: Ruth Höflich
• Additional camera: Ulla von Gemmingen
• Director, Editor, Producer: Ruth Höflich

During the 1980s, the transcript of a witch trial was found in the archive of a family property in southwest Germany. Plant (879 pages, 33 days) unfolds a conversation between mother and daughter that switches between the historical facts of the trial, and personal, ancestral connections to the site. The absent image of the persecution is replaced by a collection of photographs handled and dissected throughout the film–their physical and sensorial presence determined to act as carriers for unseen histories or intergenerational transmissions.