Blauer Salon
Summer term 2026
River of Grass

River of Grass

Director: Kelly Reichardt | USA 1994 | 76 min | DCP | English Original Version | with Lisa Bowman, Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell

Cozy (Lisa Bowman) is bored with her husband, her children, and her life in the suburban world of South Florida. She’d love to leave it all behind. One night, she meets Lee Ray (Larry Fessenden) in a bar; he lives with his grandmother and drifts aimlessly through life. When a shot is accidentally fired from a revolver they find, the two flee, believing they have committed murder. However, the would-be Bonnie and Clyde don’t get any further than the nearest motel.

The trope of the outlaw couple on the run is invoked and deconstructed: no love, no crime, no new horizons. A flight that leads nowhere. Reichardt’s anti-road movie, narrated by Cozy’s detached voice-over, uses biting humor to expose the myth of freedom and adventure as incompatible with the American present.


Supporting Film: The world is everything that is the case

Director: Eva Teppe | Germany 2002 | 2 min | SD Video | German Original Version

In the midst of public festivity they rise skyward: the “castells” of the Catalan castellers – human towers built from bodies and trust. Collapse is always a possibility. In Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist, Eva Teppe reworks TV documentary footage and radically slows the fall. The title quotes Ludwig Wittgenstein. Documentary action turns into an abstract pull of colour and proximity. A film about falling – and about what is actually the case within the image.

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