ABC
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Colour and B/W, 4:3, 78 Min., Stereo, German
Director, Book, Production Ludwig Wüst
With Peter Pertusini, Markus Schramm
Camera Ludwig Wüst, Gudrun Fürlinger
Editing Samuel Käppeli, Lukas J. Beck, Ludwig Wüst, Gudrun Fürlinger
Colour and B/W, 4:3, 78 Min., Stereo, German
Director, Book, Production Ludwig Wüst
With Peter Pertusini, Markus Schramm
Camera Ludwig Wüst, Gudrun Fürlinger
Editing Samuel Käppeli, Lukas J. Beck, Ludwig Wüst, Gudrun Fürlinger
ABC is a journey through twenty-five years of film work, a visual alphabet of sorts that tells of thematic diversity in the three primary colors. A tells of Ludwig Wüst’s first journey to Egypt. A country where his desire to become a filmmaker was born when these unplanned recordings were shot. B is concerned with Wüst’s major theme in life: friendship. C is a poetic condensation on the issue of human existence. ABC are three films that have now come into the world.
About three years ago, during the first Corona lockdown, I began to sift through filmic fragments in my archive that had been lying dormant for many years, waiting to be exploited. In the process, I came across my very first video works, made in 1999 in Cairo and the Egyptian desert in preparation for my debut film Egyptian Eclipse. Over the course of the last twenty years, this material has led to several edited versions, which have never been published by me until now. A second unpublished film fragment, very important to me personally, had the working title Cain & Abel; it was made with friends in a quarry near Gießhübl in the summer of 2018 and has since been waiting to be realized as a feature-length film. When I saw the last cut, I knew: The film is finished! Thus a second short film work was completed. In the summer of 2021, encouraged by my colleague Gudrun Fürlinger, I began to work with analog film. I took a Super8 camera and went to Bavaria to my home village. In these summer days I made my first analog recordings, a very important moment for me, similar to the time when I started my cinematic work in 1998 and made video recordings of my home village and my father's house with my first MiniDV cam. These first digital recordings from that time have been lost in the course of time. The analog Super8 images shot now will remain."
Director's Statement on ABC at the Diagonale 23
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About three years ago, during the first Corona lockdown, I began to sift through filmic fragments in my archive that had been lying dormant for many years, waiting to be exploited. In the process, I came across my very first video works, made in 1999 in Cairo and the Egyptian desert in preparation for my debut film Egyptian Eclipse. Over the course of the last twenty years, this material has led to several edited versions, which have never been published by me until now. A second unpublished film fragment, very important to me personally, had the working title Cain & Abel; it was made with friends in a quarry near Gießhübl in the summer of 2018 and has since been waiting to be realized as a feature-length film. When I saw the last cut, I knew: The film is finished! Thus a second short film work was completed. In the summer of 2021, encouraged by my colleague Gudrun Fürlinger, I began to work with analog film. I took a Super8 camera and went to Bavaria to my home village. In these summer days I made my first analog recordings, a very important moment for me, similar to the time when I started my cinematic work in 1998 and made video recordings of my home village and my father's house with my first MiniDV cam. These first digital recordings from that time have been lost in the course of time. The analog Super8 images shot now will remain."
Director's Statement on ABC at the Diagonale 23
ABC_Stills_ZIPMARINA PAVIDO, CINEMA AUSTRIACO
“ABC is a constantly evolving journey towards a future full of new discoveries and new ways of understanding art and reality. The memory of bygone times and how we have become what we are today. A true love letter to life, to friendship, to Cinema...” more
BARBARA WURM, FILMKURATOR
"Ludwig Wüst is an edgy writer aka performer aka carpenter aka director. And at the same time an incredible visionary, with a hand on the work."
“ABC is a constantly evolving journey towards a future full of new discoveries and new ways of understanding art and reality. The memory of bygone times and how we have become what we are today. A true love letter to life, to friendship, to Cinema...” more
BARBARA WURM, FILMKURATOR
"Ludwig Wüst is an edgy writer aka performer aka carpenter aka director. And at the same time an incredible visionary, with a hand on the work."