winterreise

In the months before he died, Franz Schubert composed one of his most important works: Winterreise. In a single work, the composer united the 24 poems of Wilhelm Müller and put them to music, turning them into a collection of pieces of music for piano and voice which, without a defined story line, tell of the journey of a walker through a snowy landscape after being rejected by his lover.

It is a work in the romantic style and with a marked existentialist character where the exterior landscape is transformed into an inner world. This inner world represents a mental and psychological state that reflects a period of crisis of conscience at a social, cultural and political level.

I take the musical composition as the central theme and propose WINTERREISE, a multi-layered film that crosses over from the personal to the universal. It is a re-reading of the famous Lied from a different time angle, but with the same existential drift towards essence or nothingness.