Being Together (2023, HD Video, 5'51")
Language: English
A poetical digital story by Tina Bikic
Credits
Filmed, Edited, Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic
Cast
In the role of the narrator's double
Julek Kreutzer, Diethild Meier - dancers
Music
Primordial by Nuisance
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/nu…
Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Music
Gregor Quendel
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/gr…
Licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0
Producer
Mediagrammi e.V.
This project is supported by the European Commission. DanceMeUP 607384-CREA-1-2019-1-IT-CULT-COOP1.
BEING TOGETHER
ABOUT
About
Being Together is a poetical digital story built around the acronym LET´S SPEND TIME TOGETHER, which unfolds as a narrative structure: Let´s– Spend – Time – Together. What begins as a recollection of intimacy develops into a meditation on love as an act of courage, a continuous process of trying, failing, and beginning again.
Much like in dance, where each movement is a negotiation with rhythm and gravity, relationships are rehearsals of trust, play, and persistence.
The film blends filmed dance material with personal narration and poetic text, transforming performance into fictional characters that embody phases of connection: memory, presence, and projection toward the future.
Philosophically, the work resonates with Hannah Arendt’s idea of action as beginning anew, love as something never guaranteed, always enacted and with Roland Barthes’ “fragments” of love discourse, where intimacy is shaped through repetition and uncertainty.
In Being Together, dancers become vessels for these metaphors: love not as static image but as movement, rhythm, and courage to keep trying.
2.5 Poetics of space: Constructing imaginary worlds on the screen
2.8 Tone, music and atmosphere
3.4 Imaginative ways: On story formation
Isn’t it always the lover who says let’s try this – forever.
-EXCERPT FROM BEING TOGETHER
Being Together
Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic
I remember you
I recall you as a feeling
equal to the one we call familiar and mysterious.
Familiar and mysterious.
I remember you.
