"Situated in the 'antechamber of language, and even of consciousness,' his recently restored films occupy a liminal state that is not easy to interpret or verbally address. Their associative flow of images and sounds acts as a deliberation of their sensuality. In a dreamlike density and a strange suspension of time, O.'s films induce a sensation of heightened perception, somewhere between hypnosis and clairvoyance." (Masha Matzk)

"Contemporary critics have often noted that Dore O.'s work resembles the American avant-garde cinema of the time. And that is precisely the point. Her films do not simply derive from Maya Deren or Stan Brakhage, for example. Rather, by recalling these works, they provoke an inner disturbance. O. employs a method that alludes to the styles of lyrical American avant-garde cinema, while speaking from the position of a West German subject. The result is a shifting superimposition, which evokes connotations of a cultural past, the present of the film being made, and our own era -- a positioning that reveals as much as it conceals." (Vera Dika)

"Dore O. has become a classic. Without anyone noticing, her work has seamlessly traversed various currents: the era of cooperative regrouping, of the women's film, of structuralists and grammarians, of teachers of new ways of seeing... It is time to proclaim loudly and clearly that Dore O.'s work is unique in its kind within German avant-garde cinema." (Dietrich Kuhlbrodt)

Films:
ALASKA (1968, 18 min)
LAWALE (1969, 30 min)
KALDALON (1970-71, 44 min)
BLONDE BARBAREI (1972, 25 min)
KASKARA (1974, 21 min)
FROZEN FLASHES (1976, 40 min, silent)

Includes a 52-page booklet (English and French)

Publisher: ReVoir