This Movie Is A Gift

Daniel Spoerri creates art out of found objects, which lose their function as soon as he integrates them into his works. Anja Salomonowitz makes films that are devoted to the visualization of times and conflicts. THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT stands at the crossroad between the two and intertwines their work in a very personal way. Salomonowitz thanks Spoerri with a portrait that repeatedly ties his work with objects back to his biography: Spoerri, born Feinstein, is the son of a Romanian Jew who was deported and murdered. At the same time, the film looks forward and prolongs a memory by setting Salomonowitz's son Oskar as Spoerri's stand-in and counterpart. Everything keeps reassembling itself in surprising ways. (DOMINIK KAMALZADEH). In memory of Oskar Salomonowitz 07/20/2008 - 10/27/2020.

"A remarkable meditation on life." THOMAS TABORSKY, DIE FURCHE