FEIGNED UNCONSCIOUSNESS
ELLA ZIEGLER MOVEMENT OF EMOTIONS
She lay on her back and cried. Her tears ran out of her eyes and into her ears.
A friend’s husband was a marathon runner. Unexpectedly, he had heart attack and died. A few weeks after his death the undertaker, wearing a tracksuit, brought the husband’s ashes to my friend’s house in a paper bag. She put the bag in the closet between the linen.
A child sits on a man’s hand.
A young man kneels down next to an old man. The young man closes the old man’s nostrils with his fingers, places his mouth on the old man’s mouth and blows his breath into the old man’s mouth.
On a train, a man and a woman share an armrest. Every time he falls asleep, she nudges his elbow. Every time she nudges his elbow, he wakes up.
A woman is in a coma for many weeks. Nobody knows when she will wake up again.
In a traffic accident ,a policeman saves the life of a car driver. After the accident, the policeman separates from his wife and marries the car driver whose life he had saved.
A train approaches the station. A young woman queues with other people in front of the door to leave the train. The man standing behind her breathes fresh peppermint onto her neck.
The loud bang of the door makes the woman jump.
A young man and a young woman have a life threatening experience on a hiking trip in the French Pyrenees. Both of them survive. The shared event triggers a passionate love affair. The love affair ends when the hiking trip does.
A boy provokes a boy in a game. The boy who is provoked pulls the other boy to the ground and starts strangling him.
A woman kneels down in front of a boy and holds his arms in both hands. Then she shakes his body.
Everybody sways while standing.
A mother caresses her daughter only when she sleeps.
A man pulls the arm upwards until their feet leave the ground.
An old woman cuts herself out of photographs.
An elderly couple and their 25-year-old daughter visit a young couple. The daughter is noticeably reticent and does not join in the conversation. Unexpectedly, the elderly couple’s daughter approaches the host and touches her gently underneath the eye with her forefinger.
A young woman is travelling alone in Sicily. In Palermo, she rents a private room in the apartment of an Italian family. One of the family‘s daughters approaches the traveller and reaches out both hands towards her breasts.
A teenage girl is sitting in the passenger seat next to the driver of the car. While driving, the young man touches the teenager on the inside of her thigh.
In a crowded bus in Palermo, a young man pushes his body against a young woman. Then he puts his hand into the woman’s pocket.
A man slaps a teenager.
An old man sits in a hair-dresser’s salon chair. The young female hairdresser caresses the back of the old man’s head.
A young man hugs a young woman. An old woman hugs a young man. A young woman hugs an old woman. An old man hugs a young woman.
While travelling through Albania, a young woman and her boyfriend are invited to stay for about a week with an extended family of farmers in the countryside. The young man works with the men in the fields and the woman stays with the women in the house looking after the children and maintaining the household. One day the 15-year-old’s baby is crying. Because the mother is not at home, the Albanian women ask the young traveller to put the baby on her breast. She puts the baby to her breast and it stops crying.
He always pulls his belly in when it gets bigger.
A man and a woman touch each other cheek to cheek. It is not clear if the two are kissing goodbye or whispering something to one another.