2009 I 20’ I 16 mm Color I Stereo
“Gregor Alexis moves about on disused land, in derelict and overgrown houses, as he does in the labyrinths of his inner worlds.
Jana Debus’ film is a sensitive personal portrait combining objectivity and melancholy. This empathetic exploration of his personality is reflected in the form of the film, in the interplay between the documentary narrative of her brother and the visual representation of the jagged landscapes of his psyche – in settings, pictures and gestures that create a kind of calm auto-poetry.”
JURY YOUNG TALENT AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM:
BJØRN MELHUS; PROF. DR. GUNDOLF S. FREYERMUTH;
CHRISTOPH GIRARDET; FLORIAN GWINNER; SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER
The filmmaker’s brother recounts personal experiences, slipping between first and third person. The locations chosen for this portrait – a desolate apartment and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery – are indicative of the condition of someone potentially as vulnerable as the insects that collect on his windowsill. MARK WEBBER BFI LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Jana Debus’s critically praised, gripping and intimate portrait of her brother goes far beyond documentary. A gripping and intimate encounter in which the locations, a vacant lot and an empty house, subtly mirror his vulnerability. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM (IFFR)