Between
2009 · 5m · Germany
Directed by Tim Bollinger
Genres: experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Drifting between a metro platform, an industrial basement, a sunny beach and a forest, still and moving figures inhabit the interstice between ease and agitation, the real and the imagined.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Five minutes of figures drifting between locations that could mean everything or nothing—it's the kind of formally patient experimental work that makes most scouts squirm, which is exactly why it's worth watching twice.
Bollinger's spatial syntax—the way he refuses to anchor us in any single reality, shuttling between platform, basement, beach, forest—reads as a deliberate conversation with the structural cinema lineage, each locale a formal argument about presence and absence.
The real lift here is the editing rhythm that never settles: each cut preserves the uncanny suspension between stillness and motion, making the budget constraint (minimal figures, repeated spaces) feel like the conceptual choice rather than the limitation.
Reviews
À la fois dérangeant et fascinant, décousu et cohérent, l'univers de Tim Bollinger tend en quelque sorte un miroir à nos propres angoisses et intuitions.