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“Even during shooting, it’s important to me to keep my eyes open for that which enters from outside: to seek out coincidence and to confront the story with it. Shooting is the moment in which to experience, to find out what is possible at this moment, in this place, with these people, with this story; for bringing together all the ingredients. Sometimes it’s a matter of intentionally subjecting oneself to a situation that is as real as possible or even one that is unplanned, uncertain – like a sparring partner of one’s imagination. An encounter with the story and everyone involved. And then you’ve got to catch the ball. The moment generates an inspiration. Realism separates itself from the melodramatic or fairy-talelike, resisting them with an unwieldy rawness. Roughness and laconism. In this context, even the physicality of actors and places plays a role: Their ‘being’, things one can’t invent, as reminders of reality – that which isn’t ‘by design’. Atmosphere – another resistance to the melodramatic – in a good sense banalizes the melodramatic.”
Valeska Grisebach
