René Wiesner certainly isn't a filmmaker for everyone, his films are too full of violence and macabre details coupled with some often uncomfortable insights and uneasy relatabilities. And even the violence in his movies is at times real if always consensual. And Reflexion is a movie of Wiesner meditating on his own body of work, knowing it's not a crowd pleaser, but then again it never was intended as one - on which the director wants to distance himself from indie cinema that, while not able to compete with mainstream cinema, still tries to find a whatever niche audience, and place his oeuvre firmly in the underground, where films are not made for any viewership anymore but just because certain movies need to get made, due to the filmmaker's urge to make them, and people watching them is a sort of bonus but not an incentive for the filmmaker himself.

... and I think in this, René Wiesner rather aptly describes his cinema and his approach to filmmaking - but what he humbly leaves out though is that he is able to deliver very fascinating cinematic landscapes to those who do watch his movies, that the pain he goes through as a creative translates onto the screen rather mesmerizingly, and his cinematic journeys, including this one, reach further than just his own private echo chamber. Now sure, Wiesner's films are as far as from commercial cinema as one could get, but especially for that, they, and again, Reflexion, which is as much a behind-the.-scenes look as another cinematic venture, included, are very worthwhile pieces of art.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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