Babies - yesterday I went fast times in the recently tarnished film by French director Thomas Balmès.
The film is a documentary with four main characters who do not speak - not yet. It follows four babies in four different regions of the world in their first moments.
Now it is basically so that children of the adult world to hold a mirror, sometimes even grotesque.
In the way we treat adults babies from the first moment, it is clear who we ourselves are actually how we see the world, what we think we know about the world and what we think we must pass on to the children.
Ponijao, Bayar, Mari and Hattie from Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and San Francisco have the camera in an unobtrusive companion, she never turns on. But it takes consistently the perspective of the tiny one: ground perspective, wide horizons ... Somehow reminded me of the documentary at this point in the film "microcosm - The people of the grasses" . Even in this we are familiar with the secrets of us only seemingly familiar world of insects, which seems in some sequences, such as from another planet.
The film is consistently decelerated and then everything turns into a significant piece of the puzzle, he, jumping from continent to continent, composed, aware lined up together and assigns, thereby causing something inside the viewer, which can linger for a long time.
The film fäng with a statement so obvious, such as the images from the maternity hospital in San Francisco, where the newborn on all four limbs tiny tubes are fixed, leading to equipment and machinery.
Based on the theme "Animals" is a whole world view clearly. In Namibia and Mongolia, the world is still largely directly detectable with all sense. You can see the tiny in incredibly comical situations that probably only turn a viewer with Western eyes would view as significant, strange or even dangerous. In Japan, everything takes place in a zoo behind glass. In San Francisco, the baby of the high school teacher has been a stately library from which it obtains all kinds of instructions and information from the beginning.
One also wonders whether not courage and strength of character be encouraged from the beginning characterized in the Mongolian babies that they relatively much himself (but not alone) are left, also in Western parents incredibly dangerous appearing situations on a truck bed or naked a ton of iron with a sharp edge. It seems like a small miracle of skill, such as the Mongols baby while it is surrounded by exuberant calves, so let down in slow motion from the rusty barrel to the ground that his "Zibbeli" * is not pinched or cut. Of this kind are many unexpected moments of tension of the film.
My favorites were clearly the babies who grow up in Namibia in the kraal. Apart from the fact that the landscape images and the physique of these people are a feast for the eyes when you see how calmly you the babies in dust can play ("dirty"), lets try pebbles and eat absorb it all in, not only touch what is in their environment, dawns a completely different world view of these people simply make no essential difference between them and their environment, there is no invisible or visible borders, glass or signs. There are no rankings or hierarchies in the sense that the children or animals have a specific, confined space; they practice so that, of course, what modern science already confirmed more and more: the secured and safe for western eyes separation between the individual and his environment - the outside world begins where the skin "stops" - is an illusion and hallucination. Everything belongs together somehow and is interdependent with one another in exchange.
The most relaxing place in the world: the Namibian Kral. This is consistent with how the baby learns to walk upright: he is playful placed an old, rusty tin upside down when she falls down ... they will put down a few times again ...
You want to sit back in a comfortable chair, think and sigh: Somehow it's good to this world with their so wonderfully different and yet similar people. One might not imagine that these people could exchange their wonderful homemade Chokers and her silver foot jewelry to a few worn-out, old T-shirts from a European charity shop tomorrow.
(At least the movie) Babies is a meditative, very profound and witty relaxation exercise for Western adults.
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* Zibbeli = Pullermann, Himpelchen, regionally very different
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Tags: Babies , the film , Thomas Balmès
