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DAS SCHLECHTE FELDThe bad FieldBernhard SallmannCIpremière <strong>international</strong>e / prix <strong>de</strong>s médiathèquesALLEMAGNEAUTRICHE<strong>2011</strong>CouleurHDV64’Version originaleAllemand, anglaisImageBernhard SallmannSon et montageChristoph KrügerPro<strong>du</strong>ctionFeld GbrEinsenberg/SallmannFilmographieTRÄUMEDER LAUSITZ, 2009Un lopin <strong>de</strong> terre situé à Ansfel<strong>de</strong>n, bourga<strong>de</strong> proche <strong>de</strong> Linz en Autriche,désormais coincé dans un paysage encore rural traversé <strong>de</strong> voiesrapi<strong>de</strong>s, voilà le héros <strong>du</strong> film, ce champ infécond <strong>du</strong> titre, dont BernhardSallman va nous conter l’histoire, puisque il y a vécu gamin, et que c’étaitpropriété familiale. En plans austères et <strong>de</strong>scriptifs, Sallmann cadrele champ, le village et ses environs pourtant dépourvus <strong>de</strong> toutesparticularités. Leur fixité insistante fait face à la multitu<strong>de</strong> anonyme <strong>de</strong>sautomobiles, fantômes glissant sur ces voies rectilignes, flux scandant lefilm. Très patiemment, Sallmann s’ingénie à lire les lieux, s’employant ànous faire entendre, en off ou en sous-titre étonnamment mobiles surl’écran, les récits <strong>de</strong>s uns et <strong>de</strong>s autres. Se déplient alors les pages d’unlivre d’histoires au seuil <strong>de</strong> leur effacement. L’on y apprend que le compositeurAnton Bruckner, récupéré par les Nazis comme héros romantique,y est né, que ce champ fut le cadre d’un camp <strong>de</strong> prisonniers, et qu’il futplus tard le théâtre <strong>de</strong> scènes sinistres.De la déploration <strong>de</strong> la disparition d’une certaine ruralité aux accentsnostalgiques qui semblait sans surprise dicter le projet, nous voilà petità petit, mais violemment, projetés dans l’Histoire, celle d’un recouvrement<strong>de</strong> l’horreur. Transmettre donc, exhumer <strong>de</strong> ce mauvais champ samauvaise mémoire, et ouvrir à une Histoire affranchie <strong>de</strong> ses refoulés,rendre corps aux disparus, voilà la visée : faire <strong>du</strong> film la possibilité d’unmonument discret. (NF)A plot of land in Ansfel<strong>de</strong>n, a village near Linz in Austria, now hemmed in a still rurallandscape criss-crossed by highways, is the hero of the film, the infertile field of thetitle, the history of which is recounted by Bernhard Sallmann, who lived on thefamily property as a child. Sallmann films the field, the village and its rather banalsurroundings with austere <strong>de</strong>scriptive shots. Their insistent fixity contrasts with theanonymous multitu<strong>de</strong> of automobiles, phantoms slipping by on the rectilinearroutes, the flux providing rhythm to the film. With great patience, Sallmann contrivesto read the sites, making us hear, through voice-overs and surprisingly mobilesubtitles on the screen, the stories of one or another of them. Thus the pages of abook of stories on the verge of obliteration unfold leaf by leaf. We learn that thecomposer Anton Bruckner (who was appropriated by the Nazis as a Romantic hero)was born here, that it was the site of a prison camp <strong>du</strong>ring the Second World War,and that it was later the site of sinister scenes.From <strong>de</strong>ploring the disappearance of a certain ruralism tinted with nostalgia whichunsurprisingly seems to have dictated the project, we are gra<strong>du</strong>ally, but violently,projected into History, the history of covering up horror. The aim, therefore, is totransmit something, to exhume the bad memory from the field, and open up to aHistory emancipated from its repressions, thus giving body to the <strong>de</strong>ad and turningthe film into a discreet monument. (NF)060

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