SEBASTIAN MEISE & THOMAS REIDER - OUTING

Interview mit Interview with Sebastian Meise & Thomas Reider
bewusst sein, dass er diesen Jungen, den wir als nettes
Kind wahrnehmen, als sexuelles, begehrenswertes Wesen
sieht. Diese Bilder tragen viel von einer ausweglosen Fatalität
und einer seltsamen Zweischneidigkeit. Gepaart mit
seiner heutigen Sicht schließt sich da in diesen Kindheitsbildern
ein Kreis.
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of our film, however, knows he will become a pedophilic son.
The image at the end shows us the bubble this person lives in,
and that one can only hope will never burst.
Sebastian Meise: With Sven, one senses a constant longing for
the past, for order. I find those childhood images sad also. You
look at them and you think Sven could also have developed in
a different direction. On the one hand his fate saddens me, on
the other hand, it brings out the light-heartedness of childhood
and the inconceivability of sexual violence being inflicted
on children.
Thomas Reider: In one of our conversations Sven says he finds
himself very beautiful as a child. And we have to be aware that
the same boy we perceive as a sweet child is, in his eyes, an
object of sexual attraction and desire. Those images convey a
lot of inevitable disastrousness and curious ambiguity. In combination
with Sven’s present-day perspective, his childhood
pictures allow the film to come full circle.