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How do memories actually come about? Isn't it a process that involves both – forgetting and reinventing? This construction process of memories is symbolized in the film using architectural fragments. The camera moves through structures reminiscent of film sets as well as abandoned places. We are reminded of places where we’ve been before, we are guessing. The Australian voice actor, heard from somewhere in the dark, remembers details from his way to school in Melbourne, reports on forays through foreign cities and describes these structures from his memories. His voice is fading, but is remembered by tape machines.

Thadeusz Tischbein is a Germany-based video artist. He is interested in cruel intersections of history and everyday live. In his films he uses often documentary footage along with models and archival material to develop a fictionalized version of a documentary, a forensic speculation. HOW THE WOODEN STRUCTURES SURVIVED IN MY MIND (2023) is using architectural leftovers to investigate the (re)construction of memories. In 2021 a series of nine short films using poems by Joseph Brodsky was produced. The 2017 video essay SNOW WHITE (2K Cinemascope, 19:40 min) is a journey to the dead bodies in mausoleums, churches and museums. THE ATLAS OF THE WOUNDED BUILDINGS (HD, 12:56 min, 2016) is an attempt to examine narrations written in bullets holes. Thadeusz Tischbein studied Visual Arts with Candice Breitz in Braunschweig/Germany and Clemens von Wedemeyer in Leipzig/Germany. His films were invited to many German and international film festivals, among others EMAF Osnabrück, IndieLisboa, Manifesta 12 Palermo (collateral event), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Filmfest Dresden. Most of his films started as multichannel installations and where shown for instance in Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan/Italy or Schaubuehne Lindenfels Leipzig/Germany. He lives and works in Leipzig/Germany.