Transient Witness

Transient Witness

by Assaf Gruber (47 min) 47 min | 2021

Transient Witness unfolds through the eyes of three protagonists: Christina, the manager of an art collection; Maurizio, an art mover; and Präsens, the collector's dog.

Transient Witness

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A film by
Assaf Gruber
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Inspired by the children’s book About Two Squares by El Lisstzky, the film Transient Witness simultaneously merges and obscures the intimate and the public through a fictional story where the actions of collecting and stealing function as synonyms and the concepts of inheritance and loss become interchangeable.

The film tells a story of the transfer of the objects from the private house of the avant-garde collector Egidio Marzona in Berlin to their new domicile, the Japanisches Palais, a Rococo building belonging to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). The plot unfolds through the eyes of three main protagonists: Christina, the manager of the collection; Maurizio, the art mover; and Präsens, the collector’s dog.

Fiction meets reality on 25 November 2019, when priceless jewelry of immense cultural value was stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden during one of the biggest heists in history, causing a national shock in Germany. The various encounters among the woman, the man, the dog, and the collections merge and obscure the purposes of both collecting and stealing, thereby entwining feelings of inheritance, entitlement, and loss into a more complex story connecting the baroque and the avantgarde, or art and its politics.

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Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

2022

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

2022 | Nominiert für den Preis für das beste Bewegtbild

Lo Schermo dell’Arte

2022

FIDMarseille – Marseille International Film Festival 

2022

FilmFest Dresden

2023

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Assaf Gruber

Writer, Director, Editor, Film Producer
Written by
Assaf Gruber
Directed by
Assaf Gruber
Edited by
Assaf Gruber, Dane Komljen
Assistant Director
Moriya Matityahu
Produced by
Assaf Gruber, Caroline Kirberg
Cinematographer
Frank Meyer
Set Design
Sara Wendt
Costume Design
Sara Wendt
Co-Produced by
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Krieg in Hasselt (Belgium), Fundación Botín, CCA Tel Aviv

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