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Tactile gaze        Overalls „New surroundings.“, three performers, the alps
Film poem, 2024
Somatic landscape research. Videowork.
Collaboration with Josiane Schmidt.

EN: Tactile gaze is a film project by Luisa Heinz and Josiane Schmidt which uses the means of documentary realism and experimental film to produce a “film poem”.
Seven days of a trialogue between our bodies, the alpine landscape and a camera. Overalls with a painting-like design, which we put on as costumes, served as an impulse to encounter the landscape sensorially and with an uncommon perception. Through the skins, we entered a space in which we could perform situationally in the landscape. Tactile gaze reflects our encounter with the landscape, geological strata and non-human actors. It follows the slow rhythm of the changing times of day and weather-related atmospheres. 
Its chapters are organized by the chronological succession of the scenes and our immersion into the second skins and their immersion into the surroundings. The audio of the “film poem” is developing as another layer.

DE: Tactile gaze ist ein Filmprojekt von Luisa Heinz und Josiane Schmidt, das mit den Mitteln des dokumentarischen Realismus und des Experimentalfilms, ein „Filmpoem“ produziert.
Sieben Tage lang ein Trialog zwischen unseren Körpern, der alpinen Landschaft und einer Kamera. Malerisch gestaltete Overalls, die als Kostüme getragen wurden, dienten als Impuls, der Landschaft sinnlich und mit einer anderen Wahrnehmung zu begegnen. Tactile gaze reflektiert unsere Begegnung mit der Landschaft, den Gesteinsschichten und den nicht-menschlichen Akteur*innen. 
Der Film folgt dem langsamen Rhythmus der wechselnden Tageszeiten und wetterbedingten Atmosphären.

The sun brings the scene into focus.
Dialogue- while walking.
After a while- finding retreat for body and mind in landscape.
„The mountains were still there, every morning when I woke up.“ 
One morning, i opened my eyes, with a lot of questions in my head:

What is touch?
What do I feel when the stone touches me?
What does the stone feel?
Are our bodies part of the landscape?
Can I rest on your surface?
How much can we really see of what we name ground?

Maybe one day, we will find the utopian skins. 
Protections shells. 
Shells for transition. 
Connection between the inner and the outer world. 
Hard but at the same time maintaining a stable fragility. 
Redefine the body that carries us into the new landscapes. 
Our Bodies, our Body.
To give space for Symbiosis.

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