Asuma / Wossea Mtotom – Die Wiese ist grün im Garten von Wiltz

In September 1981, a project was carried out at the "Centre de Réadaption" in Capellen (Luxembourg) that brought together a group of artists with mentally and physically disabled people over a period of several months. In the final days of this project, which was less about therapy than an exchange of creativity and experience in dealing with each other, a video documentation of the group's last activities will be realised in a short time. ASUMA (the title is derived from Roland's farewell speech of the same name) shows the joint creation and installation of bizarre sounds, images and other objects. The work is meticulously documented, the hand movements, the assembling, the trying out. Alongside these are texts and speeches of unconventional poetry, which form a kind of concrete complement to the sounds of the instruments and the noises of everyday working life: Impressions in word, sound, music and image.

An unusual documentary about an unusual project. In Wiltz (Luxembourg), artists and disabled people work together to create a public garden. During six months of living and working together, a very special atmosphere develops in this small community. The film is dedicated to the friendly atmosphere and the diverse relationships within this extremely lively group. WOSSEA MTOTOM documents this collaboration as a loose sequence of snapshots that emphasise the relaxed interaction of the group and were created over several months; and as an attempt to use the medium of video less as a means of documentation than as a means of communication. "Not a report on the project", as the realisers write, "but a part of it".