Music and Sound performed, produced and mixed by Leonhard van Voorst.
Layers of Disklavier (curtesy of Rubin Henkel), with synthesized pads and sound effects.
Director: Theresa Maria Forthaus
Choreographer: Annick Schadeck
Performer: Alena Egorkina
Music: Leonhard van Voorst
Voice: Amber
Camera: Leon Frind
Edit: Viktoria Hall
Colour Grading: Anna Hitova
1AC, Gaffer: Aleksandar Svitic
Location: Eternithaus Berlin
Special thanks for the location to FULDS and for the equipment support to Rubin Henkel and SEE YOU Rent Berlin.
The short dance film follows FRAN as she enters an apartment
where past and presence co-exist. She moves through the space not with
purpose, but through physical intuition passively confronted by objects
and memories.
The architecture of the apartment - a postwar modernist,
heritage-listed building from 1957 in Berlin’s Hansaviertel - carries
the ideals and social structures of its time. But through FRAN’s
movement, this space begins to shift.
The film explores what it means to move through a structure where
past, present, and future intertwine. Through subtle instinctive
gestures FRAN traces the intergenerational experience of
womanhood, the absurdity of remembering, and the quiet act of awakening.
A process of unlearning, of peeling away inherited narratives. At its
core, FRAN is about connection - between moments, bodies, and histories - and the question of what truly matters when nothing stays still.