Mountain - Pilar Mata Dupont - excerpt
This is an excerpt from my short film, Mountain, which I produced, directed, wrote, and edited. 'Mountain' investigates Sigmund Freud’s connection to the neighbouring villages of Berchtesgaden and Schönau am Königssee, in Bavaria, Germany, where he often spent his holidays between the late 1800s and 1929. In a rented house in Schönau, Freud wrote his seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams in 1898. The mountains in the region, particularly the Obersalzberg, are infamous as the base for the National Socialists. Hitler and Freud are reported to have been in the small village of Berchtesgaden at least twice in the 1920s at the same moment, a relatively unknown historical fact.