Tarwater
Inside The Ships
Tarwater act as an interface to various artistic movements. While Jestram and Lippok's work includes composing and performing music for film and theater, "Inside the Ships" served as the model for the short film "The Eagle is Gone" by Mario Mentrup and Volker Sattel. The film is set at night, in Berlin, at Alexanderplatz. The unique black and white aesthetic blurs the boundaries between the late Expressionism of the 20s, the cool charm of the 80s, and the present. The whole thing is supported by Tarwater's songs, which were not written for the images, but rather provided the inspiration for the visuals, and thus actually generated the images. In this respect, "Inside The Ships" becomes a form of dialogical introspection. This shows that the originally envisaged Space Opera refers not only to the future, but playfully blurs the flow of time and temporal relationships ad absurdum. And with Detlef Pegelow as a guest musician, the circle to the previous work is closed: The current Klezmer musician also performed as a guest in Tarwater's predecessor formation Ornament & Verbrechen (1980-1983).