20km/h durch Europa

Marta Hryniuk received a grant to develop, together with Nick Thomas, the film 20km/h durch Europa. The short film is made about and with experimental musician Limpe Fuchs. Through an intimate lens, the film takes Fuchs' ongoing life's work as a model for radical living despite society's demands and constraints. The filmmakers follow Fuchs as she tours Europe with her self-made instruments and traces her daily rhythms in her home in rural Bavaria, whose quirky architecture, interior and garden become characters in their own right. The portrait of the contemporary Fuchs also becomes a meditation on history, both the musician's personal story and the legacy of the European counterculture she represents, which she has never abandoned. Fuchs' cosmic, elemental music forms the backbone of the film, and the filmmakers use improvisation, vibration, drones, dissonance and noise as ways to reflect on what it means to live a truly radical life.

Marta and Nick are artists, filmmakers and cultural workers from Rotterdam. Their joint practice is dedicated to the radical potential of film and video, focusing on themes of collectivity and a subjective relationship to history. Since 2019, they have been involved in Ukraine, making multiple films, collaborating with Ukrainian artists and volunteering for humanitarian aid, an ongoing relationship that shapes their artistic output. Marta and Nick are founders of WET film: a production and distribution cooperative for film, video and moving image by artists. They are also members of Filmwerkplaats: an artist-run lab for 16mm film processing. Their first feature film Weightless premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and their film Forces is included in the Eye Experimental collection.