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The Inner Wall - Basic Background Stuff

During the early 80ies my university offered a crash course in film-making, telling the future scientists how to document their work on film. The students were shown the basic usage of the instruments, formed small groups of four people, were given 10 minutes of Black-and-white reversal film and could use the instruments for very few days. "The Inner Wall" was filmed in one day, ending late at night with just me, my beloved knife and Maria in her kitchen. I made her a nice cup of cocoa (blood) and she took the knife and castrated herself.

The workshop was attended by a group of meteorology students who made a film about the canteen (I could have predicted THAT), a guy with a sweet little car, a "Gogomobil", who made a film about it (dito), and a guy with the inane idea to cram the story of a feature film into a trailer for that film, me.

The very first day I turned up with a treatment for TIW. It wasn't greeted with too much enthusiasm. Looking back I can't blame them. It seems like an impossible task.

But when all the film were shown at a special screening, TIW was voted best film of the bunch by the viewers, thus winning the totally well-known and prestigious "Film Snake"-award. Actually it was the best TIW-screening I've ever attended. So much laughter and joy in a room full of people - it really did seem to be a good movie. The famous magic of the cinema at work.

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Worst Sex Scene In The History of the Movies. Ever.

"They struggle fiercely against being the playthings of big powers."

It was my intention to show the intimacy of the Maria/Elfi-relationship by just letting them hug & cuddle a little bit, more or less fully dressed. I needed images to go with the off-screen claim "They struggle fiercely ..."

This is mirrored in the scene with little Alexander hugging himself, imitating exactly that.

Turned out that one of them really fancied the other one, so she came up with the suggestion: We'll do it in the nude, but there can't be a man in the room during the filming. In a creepy way this actually made sense at that time. I thought it would be a good idea to let the women exploit themselves. But they didn't and it wasn't.

The only woman in my technical team was - in a biblical sense - totally blind. She didn't know the first things about the cinematographic religion. And I hadn't be too successful in explaining to her what TIW was supposed to be all about.

I ended up with neither having images supporting the "They struggle fiercely"-punchline, nor a sex scene that deserves that name. Just a blatant nothing that I still had to use. This is the only thing TIW-related, including all it's other weak points, I'm not responsible for. Praised be the Good Lord of the Cinema for that!

Under the blanket they were both stark naked. And they looked totally adorable. What a waste ....