Documentary / HD Video / 16:9 / 41:03 min / 2018
Deutlichland explores how memory, identity, and migration are articulated through voice, music, and presence.
The work follows a group of musicians from different cultural backgrounds who come together in Kiel. Their collaboration forms the visible layer of the film. Beneath this surface, individual histories of displacement and transition begin to emerge.
Narration is structured through the voice of the bandleader, Momen Shaweesh. His reflections unfold gradually. For a significant part of the film, his presence remains absent from the image. The voice exists independently. Only toward the end does the body appear, creating a shift in perception.
Music operates as a central narrative force. It connects fragments of biography and creates a shared temporal space. The film avoids direct representation of traumatic experience. Instead, it constructs a field of suggestion in which memory is carried through sound, rhythm, and gesture.
Deutlichland examines how storytelling can be displaced from visual representation to embodied and acoustic forms. Meaning emerges through presence, absence, and the interaction between voice and image.
Roles
Camera, Editing, Sound
Camera, Editing, Sound