Titles by Marcel Odenbach

(Srecan Susret) Die gluckliche Begegnung
As if Memories Could Deceive Me
Dans la vision peripherique du temoin (In the peripheral vision of the witness)
Die Distanz zwischen mir und meinen Verlusten
Die Einen den Anderen
Ich mache die Schmerzprobe (I do the Pain Test)
Sich selbst bei Laune halten (To Stay in a Good Mood)
Standig auf dem Sprung Sein
Stehen ist Nichtumfallen (Standing is not Falling Down)
Vorurteile (oder die Not macht Erfinderisch)

(Srecan Susret) Die gluckliche Begegnung

1987, 6 min, b&w and color, sound

Produced in Yugoslavia, Die gluckliche Begegnung, which translates as "The Happy Encounter," is an enigmatic inquiry into the means by which an individual can know and understand the self through history and the past. Odenbach orchestrates a series of lyrical images, from farmers hoeing the earth to students reading aloud from oversized tomes. In an emblematic image, a youth watches archival film footage of goose-stepping soldiers with his hand partially covering his eyes. The act of observation and the meaning of representation are posited as metaphors for knowledge of one's self and one's culture.

Music: J.S. Bach. With: Bojan Lukic. Produced by Dunja Blazevic, TV Galerije.