| All I want is a good night's sleep |
| A 2001, 43 Min |
| With: Meri Dukovski, Noemi Becker, Christina Tsilidis, Maria Ungersböck, Music: Sonomat Beta & Impuls |
| Trailer: 02:50 (14,4 MB) |
| "A woman goes it alone"- The final sequence at ist beginning.This video in the form of a silent movie was originally created as a visual for Female Planet, who invited the public on the occasion of Europride 2000 to their Women and Lesbian´s Club at the Vienna Wuk. Later the Duo Sonomat Beta and Impuls wrote the music for it. The seemingly trivial text was taken from Taxi Orange -a reality soap television format- and diary entries. The action is divided into three chapters ("I am what I experience" - "Low interest rates will allways be high" - "The casual dealing with feelings") and is presented from three different perspectives. Cinematographic highlights are a scene with a female electrician shown in great detail as well an idyllic boatride on the Vienniese Danube. |
| All I want is a good night's sleep |
| "I detest discipline forced on me, and did not know any thing about being alone." - "I want to find a way where to make it possible for several people to exist in my life." - "I am not a man, I am only a puppet and I´ll stand in the corner over there."- "We might be only two penuins in your eyes but we can also discuss Deleuze with you..." - "No, I prefer having a Caffelatte and I´m anyway more interest in radical feminist issues!" - "All my life I have never been scared but once!" -"Aloha, Hannah! That suits you perfectly!" - "Lea, there will be a time when we shall rest under the palmtrees at Hawaii!", at the dance on the raft: "Do you just like to dance with me or do you love it?",. - "It became morning, beautiful Monday morning...time became a minor matter and the subject a substantive...". Fiona Rukschcio has chosen performers who do not correspond to the usual clichés or stereotype conceptions of Lesbians, which would make it easy for the less receptive viewer to categorize or simply ignore them. The characters are convincing in themselves as "women who go it alone", not to mention the fact that they contribute in an important manner through the effectiveness of their facial expressions and body language to the successful transposition into silent movie. The viewer is tempted to read their lips and at the same time is delighted about the intensity of their interaction that becomes meanungful without a thousand words having been said. |
| Harriet Leischko, Translation: Birgit and Steve Ball |