

Synopsis

This film is an intimate and surreal journey through the torn heart of a passionate women narrated in seven songs. The traumatic ending of her true love throws her into a dark void and a deep numbness. To heal, her pain had to be transformed into music. In the dark recesses of her withdrawn soul, music come to her in her phantasma- gorical psychosis, she hears these songs and sings them.

Her psychotic visions summon an uncanny ladscape of random fragments of the Wild West, exploding in her head – she loses herself in it, in order to find herself again. In this lawless and chaotic second world,everything masculine, by proxy, is a painful reminder, a trigger of her unfair suffering and is thus considered hostile. Meret heals her soul by roaming through several deaths- ever line of song is a duel fought with blood and flowers.
Gallery

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Katja Oortman

Photography by Ralf Schmerberg

Photography by Katja Oortman
About The Film

When Meret Becker asked Ralf Schmerberg to shoot a music video for her latest record “Deins & Done” he listened to the album and felt he had to make it a complete film.
He fell in love with the music so much that he knew he had to create a new format that
defied categorization.
The director remarks, “I knew I needed more space and time to express what I felt about Meret’s music. I wanted the emotional landscape that Meret has unfolded in her lyrics and music on film. Just a music video would never have been enough for me. I realized her story is my story and it’s your story. What she has put into her songs is the fight of love that we all experience sooner or later in our lives.”
Only a very small budget and a lot of enthusiasm equipped Meret Becker and Ralf Schmerberg to mobilize the proper support of friends who made a lot more possible
beyond a typical film budget.
“I am moved by all the support people have given us. The film has an unbelievably beautiful cast of actors who performed for free, as well as a great crew who worked unbelievably hard for no money… for many days, with little sleep. I know we went to the limit of what is possible and beyond. Looking back at the shoot today makes me feel a little romantic.
Now my life feels boring after having lived in a utopia, which is what making Meret —
Seven Deaths of a Bird became for us.”
Credits

A FILM OF SEVEN SONGS BY RALF SCHMERBERG
A MINDPIRATES AND CLAIRE WERKE PRODUCTION IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH TRIGGER HAPPY AND STUDIO BABELSBERGWWW.MERETSEVENDEATHSOFABIRD.COM
Contact
Mindpirates info@mindpirates.org |
ATELIER RALF SCHMERBERG office@atelierralfschmerberg.com |
AXEL (MERET BECKER'S MANAGEMENT) ae@mec-early.com |
