Films by Carmen Tartarotti

Germany 2008, 90 min
by Carmen Tartarotti

"I thought it should be a film about keeping silent. Writing and keeping silent. But how do you make something like that? Maybe for other authors it is possible for them to produce other things from their minds when they speak, whereas I cannot produce anything. I don’t want to speak! And this will be the basis for making our film. We’ll do that!” (F. Mayröcker) For several years, Carmen Tartarotti accompanied the renowed Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker, mostly alone – but supported by the Sw