Film poem of restlessness and desire, targeted at a spinning wheel and Ariadne’s thread.
Moving wheels, threads, reels, hands mixed together in rhythmic symphony, interwoven with images of a woman whose face we never see. Ariadne is a film poem of restlessness and desire. The material was originally shot on 8mm and later blown up. The beautiful soundtrack comprises mechanical sound but also fragments of romantic music. Barbara Meter: ‘Ariadne may suggest the vitality of being in love, the unrest and the agony as well as the romantic fantasies – and is also a tribute to the medium of film itself.’ —IFFR
Barbara Meter (1939, Netherlands) made her first short film in 1967 and has since then made many experimental films and documentaries that have been widely screened internationally. She was co-founder of the Dutch Filmcoop in the 70s and organiser of many film events in London and Amsterdam. —IFFR
