I’ll Be Your Eyes, You’ll Be Mine / Beautiful Monsters

I'll Be Your Eyes, You'll Be Mine
Keja Ho Kramer, Stephen Dwoskin, FR 2007
Screenplay, Editing: Keja Ho Kramer, Stephen Dwoskin; Director of Photography: Keja Ho Kramer; Music: Kasper T. Toeplitz; with: Julien Beauviala, Robert Buechler, Tej Greenhill, Keja Ho Kramer, Erika Kramer, Robert Kramer, Eric Kroll. DCP, colour, 48 min. English ☼

Beautiful Monsters
Keja Ho Kramer, FR 2021
Director of photography: Keja Ho Kramer, Erika Asher Kramer; with: Keja Ho Kramer, Erika Asher Kramer. DCP, colour, 38 min. English ☼

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. Beautiful Monsters complements the film with an intimate portrait of Erika Kramer. Shared time in the lush, overgrown garden of the stone house on the Seine, casual conversations between Scrabble, tarot cards, acoustic resonances and drawings. A comprehensive cosmos unfolds between daughter and mother: from memories of Keja Ho's birth in 1974 to a playful rehearsal of the irrefutability of death. (Volker Pantenburg)

Photo: Austrian Film Museum