Fran
2025 | video | 3:43min

The experimental film follows FRAN as she enters an apartment where past and presence co-exist. She moves through the space not with purpose, but through physical intuition passively confronted by objects and memories. 

The architecture of the apartment - a postwar modernist, heritage-listed building from 1957 in Berlin’s Hansaviertel - carries the ideals and social structures of its time. But through FRAN’s movement, this space begins to shift.

The film explores what it means to move through a structure where past, present, and future intertwine. Through subtle instinctive gestures FRAN traces the intergenerational experience of womanhood, the absurdity of remembering, and the quiet act of awakening. A process of unlearning, of peeling away inherited narratives. At its core, FRAN is about connection - between moments, bodies, and histories - and the question of what truly matters when nothing stays still.

Director: Theresa Maria Forthaus
Choreographer: Annick Schadeck
Performance: Alena Egorkina
Camera: Leon Frind
Edit: Viktoria Hall 
Colour Grading: Anna Hitova
Music: Leonhard van Voorst
Voice: Amber Fasquelle
1AC, Gaffer: Aleksandar Svitic
Location: Eternithaus Berlin 

Special thanks for the location to FULDS and for the equipment support to Rubin Henkel and SEE YOU Rent Berlin.