BETON
My brother Lukas is a film director. He studies at DFFB in Berlin. His films are usually very stylized, elegiac, enigmatic and rough. Think Andrey Tarkovsky getting drunk with Ulrich Seidl, or Alejandro Jodorowsky going shopping with Michael Haneke. In 2011, however, he did a personal project outside of his usual DFFB business, called BETON (Concrete). He transformed himself into a 1990s Viennese gabber techno chav named Markus, and his girlfriend into Markus’s girlfriend Ana, grabbed our mom’s small analogue camcorder and set out to shoot a clandestine movie. To the outside world, they looked like two fucked up kids just filming each other getting more fucked up – nobody knew they were actually following a scripted reality. In the finished film, only the very first and last shot was done with a proper camera. The rest is grainy footage, mostly edited by just hitting REC on and off.
BETON is a story of love and escalation. It is incredibly touching. I’ve asked Lukas to make it available on Vimeo in full length – his other feature films of course aren’t -, because I wanted to share it here on 60pages.
