I’l Be Your Eyes, You’ll Be Mine / Looking for Robert

Keja Ho, filmmaker and daughter of Robert and Erika Kramer, was part of Kramer's films in various roles; as an actress (including in Guns), photographer (Walk the Walk) or inspiration. In two unusual essay films, she takes a cinematic approach to her parents. I'll Be Your Eyes, You'll Be Mine was made in 2006 for a retrospective of Kramer's work in Bobigny. A dreamlike search movement, encounters with friends of the father. The father is both absent and present: with his voice off-screen, in photographs and as a lifeless body.

Richard Copans, filmmaker, cameraman and founder of the production company Les Films d'Ici in 1984, is one of the central members of Robert Kramer's film family. He has been involved in one way or another in almost all of Kramer's films since Guns. In Looking for Robert, Copans looks back on two decades of close friendship and collaborative work. In the quiet back and forth between photographs blowing in the wind, various working materials and film clips, Kramer's special way of working in films such as Route One/USA, Sous le vent and Point de départ becomes tangible. Inspired by Kramer's working method, Copans succeeds in speaking not about but with and to the filmmaker through his personal approach in the form of a filmic letter. Copans: ‘It's a way of remembering the central place he gave to experience in order to avoid the pitfalls of the script. It's also the story of a friendship that changed me.’ (Volker Pantenburg)

In the presence of Keja Ho Kramer and Richard Copans

Photo: Austrian Film Museum