John Erdman

Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer. (imdb)

Roy, an editor, is dead. His friends - a writer, a translator, a photographer, a draughtsman and an architect - are reading their way through his notebooks trying to reconstruct his life. This leads some of them to Cologne Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia; others to confrontations with their own projections (literally in the case of Carl, the writer, haunted by his creation, Rob).

Everything looks extremely unlikely, everything looks like it's all the same, you don't know what happened. But you know it happened to you. (imdb)