ABOVE THEM THE WORLD BEYOND
2013 - Video HD and Super 8
13 minutes 13 seconds
The worlds of Franz Kafka and Josef Fritzl collide to produce a disturbing insight into the notions of incubation as heard through the ears of someone under duress.
Isolation as the process or fact of isolating or being
isolated, including the social lack of contact between persons, groups,
or whole societies... (Psychology) The failure of an individual to
maintain contact with others or genuine communication where interaction
with other species persists... WARNING not recommended for a
Claustrophophile.
“There is no joy in this piece, just the omnipresent
sense of dread and foreboding. Be warned it is not for the fainthearted”
Gladys Morris
Film Andrew Kötting
Images Nick Gordon Smith
Voice Schneider
Super 8 Andrew Kötting
Edit and Sound Andrew Kötting
ABOVE THEM THE WORLD BEYOND
Dialogue List
V/O
Help me out
I want to get out of here
V/O
Einspeilung nummer eins
V/O
Qu’est-ce que
Qu’est-ce qui
Qu’est-ce que
C'est que
Darrei
Qu’est-ce qui
Qu’est-ce que
Qu’est-ce qui
Darrei
V/O
Einspeilung nummer zwo
V/O
Let me go goddammit
Let me go
I’m going to get you
You son of a bitch
You hear me
I’m going to get you
V/O
Einspeilung nummer drei
V/O
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
(SHOUTS)
Heidi
V/O
Gross Vater
TEXT
Er entdeckte dass er zu einem monstrosen
Insekt geworden war
(He thought that he had become an enormous insect)
V/O
Il est seul dans le studio
TEXT
I have much more difficulty
Understanding a dog than I do a man
V/O
Einspeilung nummer zwölf
V/O
Help me out
I want to get out of here
V/O
Portipuss billiti luss
V/O
Il est seul dans le studio
TEXT
Er lag auf seinem harten rucken
V/O
He lies on his hard armour-plated back
TEXT
Und sah seine schwarzen gewolbten bauch
V/O
And saw his black belly
Or something
Black stomach
V/O
Help me out
I want to get out of here
And that’s why I did what I had to do
She said
Err
Help me out
I want to get out of here
So like I said
That’s why I sent this message
V/O
Full of fear
Err
One hides them
(SHOUTS)
Wie in der groft!
Groft is like a
Err
Err what do you call it in a church?
The cellar
Ummm
V/O
Einspeilung nummer zehn
V/O
And all this time
Ten years
And nobody having figured nothing out about
Where she’s at
And then this has come to an ending
V/O
(SHOUTS)
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
Gross Vater
V/O
Heidi
V/O
Gross Vater
V/O
I’m just trying to find out who is shouting
V/O
I anticipated witnessing in my own life time
The disappearance of my own species
But the Gods have been against me
V/O
German Wesen?
It just sounds
Yea it is German
German Bavarian
Maybe not Bavarian
Some southern German
TEXT
Wesen nur etwas zu klein
Lag ruhig zwischen den
Vier wohlbekannten wanden
V/O
Uber ihnen die welt jenseits
Above them the world beyond
V/O
La vie est un trou
La vie est un trou est ces habitants respirent
La vie est un trou
Est se respirent de dans
V/O
OK I’ve got this
What was his name again?
What’s he wearing?
V/O
I don’t know because he’s not here right now
V/O
When he left what was he wearing?
V/O
I’m in pain
V/O
Right the Police are on their way
I told you they’re on their way
So call me when they get there
V/O
OK Right
But ….
V/O
OK
V/O
Right
V/O
Einspeilung sechsundzwanzig
V/O
Einspeilung achtundzwanzig
V/O
So when all strings
When all ropes fail
Or rip
Then
Was bleibt ist einsperren
V/O
When all else fails what remains is incarceration
V/O
Exactly that happened
Because one didn’t find her in the room
V/O
Grossvater
V/O
Einspeilung seibenundreizig
V/O
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
J’aime toi
V/O
Oh this is also nice
Noch etwas mochte ich berurden
Wenn mann ist ….
I want to touch on something else
Even though it would be better to avoid it
Ermm
Just
Only us
Or just us
We are good for nothing
Ermm
Ermm
Ermm
And then he says
Would you allow me one last question?
When do you ever get some fresh air?
V/O
Now dammit talk to her
This man’s going to talk to me
V/O
Let him up
I said let him up
V/O
Now are you happy?
V/O
Uber ihnen die welt jenseits
Above them the world beyond
And it was all in that type face
And I thought it was to do with some kind of Nazi initiation
It really felt so fascistic
Because it’s so German
V/O
I think that whatever is really living
Is a very interesting object to me right off
And the more like me so to speak
The more like my kind
The more easily I communicate with it
I have much more difficulty understanding a dog
Than understanding a man
V/O
It’s the give and take that constitutes
The given life
V/O
The give and take of what?
The give and take between
END
