缺席

"In Absentia" blends black-and-white and color, live-action and animation, along with other elements. The woman in the film, the painter "EH" (Emma Hauck) in a psychiatric asylum, repeatedly writes letters to her husband with broken pencil leads. Outside her window, a constantly shifting beam of light reflects her mental and emotional state. Accompanying this light, which refracts between prism-like mirrors, are intermittent, mournful screams—as if emanating from the depths of her mind—that echo throughout. The film almost never shows the protagonist's face directly, emphasizing a sense of anonymity, while using other techniques to simulate the reflections within her mind. It is worth noting that the composer Stockhausen Karlheinz, who created the score "A Pair" (referring to the woman and her invisible husband as a pair), wept during the composition process, as the film reminded him of his mother, who was taken away by the Nazis during World War II.