The world is not always beautiful, as my mother says. My child wakes up. My parents smile at each other and recollect: The house in which my mother never wanted to live, my uncle's mental illness, which my grandparents never wanted to face, the nuclear war that never came. They speak of unrealized intentions. To be sterilized, to take one's own life, to pack up and leave.
Maria Mayland, born 1988 in Bocholt. She studied art in Essen, Basel, Vienna, and Stockholm, and has worked with film since 2015.
Filmography
2015 Driving around where the crescents used to be. A script
2017 A bar on Majorca
2019 Untitled (a refusal of leave to land)
2020 Dunkelfeld
2021 Michael Ironside and I
2024 Outside
2026 A wideness, opening and closing