Doppelgaenger

Erich Taschek, filmmaker Michaela Taschek´s father, used to be a fun-loving and sociable man. But then "Eichi" turned into a taciturn loner who locked himself in the cellar to make models and hardly ever left the house. After his death Taschek uses family photos and home movies to invent a wild doppelganger theory that provides a plot for her long lasting feelings of alienation. An essay about disappearance and the power of projection in "documentary" images.

Esther Buss, Catalogue DOK Leipzig

In cautious takes, Michaela Taschek explores the kitchen at her parents´ house; films the breakfast table, then the hallway,...