Ich aus Schweigen

Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan were pioneers of the post-war literature. They intended a
collective processing of the Nazi crimes by constant dialogue and by transforming their memories
into sensitive forms of poetry. Bachmann in particular with her texts created an utopia that, by the
dialectic of her works, dueled with the brutality of everyday life. Adorno‘s statement „to write a
poem after Auschwitz is barbaric“, which evoked a verdict against artful works on the Shoah,
provoked an aesthetic discourse at the time. The processing of experiences by and with art,
however, represents a form of digestion of events that should have no limits unless they
defamed victims.
In the film „I of silence“ the filmmaker Fitore Muzaqi connects text and the language of
images in an artistic harmony without repressing the sensitivity of the issue.
With texts by Bachmann, Celan and the filmmaker herself cinematic light is creating
a symbolic space of the subconscious.

Original version with English subtitles
(Original: German)