Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens: The Tower

13th April – 6th May 2023

15m15s, two-channel video, 2001

In The Tower, reality and fantasy become pretty mixed up as an aristocratic, hippy family, who live in a medieval tower near Salzburg, Austria, talk openly, and with a keen sense of drama, about their lives, money, art love, misunderstandings and dreams. Their natural, easy manner provokes the question: is this a real family or just a group of actors? Thanks to a large family fortune, none of them has ever had to work for a living, but the ‘three generation millions’ (one generation makes a million, the second keeps it and the third spends it) are slowly disappearing.

Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens direct and produce films and documentaries exploring the interlocking themes of identity and community. Their films have been shown internationally at film festivals, in museums and on television, including at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Whitechapel Gallery, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.