sr

Synopsis

sr draws a panorama of human activity in which the giraffe emerges as a recurring motif. 91 narrative tableaus lead to 30 sites such as an island in the Western Pacific, a reading room in New York, a runway in central Niger. In 16 fragmentary episodes sr reports of political and societal conditions, of theoretical discourses, human creations and realities of everyday life. Traces of exoticism, colonial relics, relations of power, cultural artifacts and the relativity of knowledge appear. sr is an invitation to contemplate on what the film depicts.

Director Biography

Lea Hartlaub was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 2002, after some years taking and printing analogue photographs, she started making films on a mostly self-taught basis during a four year stay in the UK. After returning to Germany she received a diploma in photography and media and a postgraduate diploma at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.