tell me on tuesday

[sag es mir dienstag]

astrid johanna ofner | austria, 2007 | 26'

we start off saturday's programme of films focusing on writers, poets and novelists by observing the 100th anniversary of franz kafka's death (3 june 1924) with a 35mm film screening of astrid johanna ofner's (b. 1966) short film based on kafka's letters to milena jesenská regarding their four-day meeting in vienna in july 1920. excerpts from the latter, grainy super-8 footage of the outskirts of the city and the music of anton webern combine to produce an evocative portrait of this meeting, itself undocumented and only alluded to in the surviving letters in anticipation or hindsight.

director astrid johanna ofner | cinematography astrid johanna ofner | text franz kafka | editing maragh-ablinger | voice sylvie rohrer | production astrid johanna ofner | distribution / 35mm print source sixpackfilm