In collaboration with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Josef Dabernig's Stabat Mater (2016) is showing exclusively on Mubi from June 29 - July 29, 2017 as part of the series Competing at Oberhausen.Let me start with some subjective impact and personal implications in reference to this film.Both partners of my camera operator and one artist friend were working in their younger years at the same modeling agency and are now mothers of children around 10 years old. This triggered in me the concept of a tribute to the mother in the sense that former photo models are conditioned by their children towards a shift in responsibility and social acceptance.Contemporaneous to these reflections on sorrowful mothers, my long-term director of photography Christian Giesser was encouraging me to shoot in southern Italy, recalling our work in the region for Jogging (2000) and Lancia Thema (2005). That called back my memory from 20 years ago of...
- 6/29/2017
- MUBI
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