The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Event
A young doctor feels useless. A family is sitting at the computer as if around a cooker. Someone is in a hurry. An educator (Jutta Hoffmann) must hand over the child she has taken care of for a year to the parents. The welcome she receives is such that she ends up taking the child with her. Finally, the story of the blind filmmaker. He lost his sight during filming and, seeing nothing, made his best film. A powerful metaphor that appeals to so many stories of blind characters told by Kluge himself throughout so many works, from Fritz Lang to James Joyce, passing through the blind father in the conversation with Jean-Luc Godard, which opens this retrospective. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
