Karo Szmit

The animation journal du temps makes use of archival material of journeys to various locations. In the process – a kind of reference to one’s own reality - the situation of the traveller, his curiosity and longing, but at the same time the difficulty of seeing and comprehending beyond one’s own frontiers are directly addressed. Travel logs by famous writers (A. Von Humboldt, J.W. von Goethe, Georg Büchner and others) serve as the starting material for the soundtrack.

They are abbreviated to such an extent, however, that only the descriptions of the weather on the respective journey remain. Viewing the assembly of a variety of minor and major travel impressions combined with a commentary limited to a very narrow excerpt of reality, one is confronted with that characteristic phenomenon of talking about the weather: here the banal as well as existentially significant are in unusually close proximity.