MASA

7 -31 December 2007

“Dating from 1987 and considered as the pioneer of postmodern cinema, the film ‘Der Himmel Über Berlin’ begins with the poem “Lied Vom Kindsein” (Song of Being a Child) by Peter Handke, whom the director Wim Wenders has worked with in many of his films.

The feeling of void we, as the reader, share with Handke is so intimately personal yet at the same time can be so easily empathized with that it perfectly describes the solitude of today’s metropolitan beings.
In ‘Himmel Über Berlin’ Handke’s poem is rewritten, moreover the monumentality of the image points to a structure that works through the means of the act of writing. During this reproduction phase, due to the cinematographic elements such as the moving image and the sound, the effect of the text multiplies in manifolds.
Now it is time to rewrite Lied Vom Kindsein, as if they were our own words …” [Çağrı Saray]