Oh! Die Vier Jahreszeiten

The film opens with a keen reflection by Jonas Mekas on improvisation: "it is," he says, "the highest form of concentration, of awareness, of intuitive knowledge, when the imagination begins to dismiss the pre-arranged, the contrived mental structures, and goes directly to the depths of the matter. This is the true meaning of improvisation, and it is not a method at all, it is, rather, a state of being necessary for any inspired creation. It is an ability that every true artist develops by a constant and life-long inner vigilance, by the cultivation – yes! – of his senses". Aurand and Pfeiffer put this into practice by filming each other in four iconic European locations: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, twirling a child over and over in the air in Moscow's Red Square, climbing the waterfall at Place de la Concorde on a hot day in Paris and, like two angels in London, walking through the City at night. (CG)