随风而逝 Der Wind nimmt die mit

Artist filmmaker Ann Carolin Renninger follows the daily rhythms, rituals and fascinations of three people – Rovin, Maria, and Christopher – whose rural domestic spaces appear to them as sites of endless wonder. In his remote home on the Baltic Sea, Rovin searches the skies, fire and moss for the origins of the cosmos, illustrating his findings with drawings of microbes and asteroid belts. Maria, a petrologist, examines the individual components and molecular arrangements of the stones she collects from the beach, whilst Christopher determinedly hauls rocks up onto a hill to construct a stone circle. Through her gentle observation, Renninger presents their investigations in geological time. As Maria observes: “for a stone, a human lifetime is like a breath.”