
Hypozentrum | Hypocentre by Xenia Lesniewski
DEU 2013, Berlinale Shorts

Xenia Lesniewski
Hypozentrum | Hypocentre by Xenia Lesniewski
DEU 2013, Berlinale Shorts
Hypozentrum is a fragmentary amalgamation of fiction and reality into a time-based, animated ensemble. An aesthetic blackmail. A compensation for emotional deficits that is definitely sad. The term hypocentre – the seismic source that unleashes an earthquake – describes a place that cannot be seen, but from which an extraordinary power emanates which has an effect on the visible world. This film revolves around this term on a variety of levels. A process dictated by narrative is deliberately avoided. Abused texts and effects. Garish visions of childhood, Eros and sexuality, illness, dying, death and Techno. An incestuous affair between rhythm, a bass line and eternity that appears to transcend all. There is rumbling everywhere, and tension. It seems they still exist, those things you can’t talk about. Sparklers would be good. Brightly coloured, anthropologically glistening confetti, in which furious vibrations scantily flutter down between emotional artefacts on the horizon of arousal.
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Directors' Group Picture
Leontine Arvidsson (2011 12 30), Clément Decaudin (A coup de couteau denté), Oliver Schwarz (Traumfrau), Ivana Todorovic (Ja kada sam bila klinac, bila sam klinka), Xenia Lesniewski (Hypozentrum) and Rachel Mayeri (Private Cinema: Apes as Family) after the premiere of their films of the Berlinale Shorts II.
Hypozentrum · Berlinale Shorts · European Shooting Stars · Feb 11, 2013