Rosy Beyelschmidt
... AND THE MOON IS ALMOST HIDDEN
2023
Ultra HD (4K) color video, 2-ch sound, 6:50 min [➚]
Director · Writer · Performance · Words · Sound : Rosy Beyelschmidt
Camera · Sound Design · VFX · Editor : Dieter Beyelschmidt
I'm on my way to Paris with my '404', it's 1969; will pick-up some books there are very important to me. It's favourable, can stay a few days, have short conversations with friends. But I can no longer get to them .... everything that was clear before, seems rather diffuse now.
It's 2022 - I'm standing in front of my wall of books, looking at a piece of steel from which 'Injection' was punched out - something that remained with me of my '404', my faithful companion of that time. I see the works I had picked up in Paris and some of it seems mysterious to me in a new way - the times, the events intermingle. I think of the Rue du Dragon, of 'CALLIGRAMMES', but also of the energy that Fritz Picard, the owner of the antiquarian bookshop, was mustering at the time. In 1938 he fled Germany; he had to leave his 7000 books behind, important works of the time were lost.
Thoughts of Jean-Luc Godard's absurd world in 'Alphaville' arise, of Paul Éluard's 'Capital of Pain', the eternal pain - Gala who left him and turned to Dali.
'... AND THE MOON IS ALMOST HIDDEN' is an autofiction, an attempt to order and reassess what has been experienced. It is an immersion in a system that is guided by 'NOMOS _ the METRONOME', clock generator and filter system, system-determining and unwavering. It takes the form of 12 TimeCubes with evaluation/assignment displays, control monitors and communication figurines in anonymous shape.
Is it possible to bring such a system into overflow with the hope of self-dissolution? Or does the attempt fail, like Paul Éluard's futile efforts to unleash his wife Gala by Salvador Dali.
