A SECOND QUARTER
(1975, 85 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
The second film in the series – there were to be four quarters – retains the cinematic structure of A FIRST QUARTER and builds upon it. The characters translate, count, and recite the alphabet. They build a narrative that is not a story to be followed dogmatically but rather a pattern from which to extract one’s version of
what is seen. The scenes are set in an old bourgeois apartment, in an office near the West Berlin train station, and at the ruins of the Anhalter Bahnhof and its vicinity, with the Berlin Wall in the background.