The Woman Who Turned Into A Castle
Animation, AT/GB 2018, Farbe, 4 min., eOF
Diagonale 2019
Director, Script, Camera, Editor: Kathrin Steinbacher
Music: Jan Willem de With
Sounddesign: Kathrin Steinbacher, Jan Willem de With
Additional Credits: Voice Over:
Julia Meola
Clarinet:
Ben Mason
Sound Mix:
Mike Wyeld
Animation:
Kathrin Steinbacher
Colouring:
Kathrin Steinbacher
Bertram Tinhof
Alessia Angelini
Alice Bindloss
Julia Maria Marchowska
Lily Shaul
Elaine Song
Nathan Ward
Producers: Royal College Of Art London
Production: Royal College of Art
“They forced me back to life. They made my body move again.” Kathrin Steinbacher’s animated film portrays the subjective perception of a woman who has been torn from a forty-year sleep. Neurasthenic montages, unsettling perspectives, the dissolution of the world into the abstract, and an uncanny, other-worldly sound design mediate states of fear in light of a reality gone astray, from which she has to escape.