DIETER KIESSLING

ABSENCE SHE SAID by Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic deals with the moods and feelings associated with the experience of loss, absence, separation, and remembrance. It reveals the feelings of a young woman who is obviously coming to terms with a loss or a separation. The passing of time seems to decrease. The surroundings seem to dissolve. The video convinces and affects by the use of poignant pictures and haunting sound which reveal the flow of time and the feelings of absence.

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