A documentary by André Uerba & Stella Horta
47', HD. 2020

Performers
André Uerba, Bernardo Chatillon, Jan Rozman, Jorge De Hoyos, Judith Förster, Lyllie Rouvière, Marc Lohr, Mariana Nobre Vieira, Philipp Enders

Cinematography & On Set Sound
Stella Horta

Editing
André Uerba, Stella Horta

Sound Mix
Cláudia Sul

Original Sound Score
Marc Lohr

Colorgrading
Tomás Vieira

with
Vanessa Weinert, Ivan Todorov, Luigi Kovacs, Little B.

Special Thanks
Bernardo de Almeida, Eva Fisahn, Konstantin Mercks, Matthias Mohr, Pia Krämer, Radialsystem

Burn Time - The Process

"Burn Time," a documentary by André Uerba and Stella Horta, turns its lens away from the finished performance and toward everything that makes it possible. Rather than documenting just the choreography, the film follows the quiet labor behind it: the installing of nearly 70 kilometers of cotton thread.

What emerges is less a "making-of" and more a meditation on process itself. The camera lingers on hands threading, cutting, knotting, measuring — on bodies warming up, touching each other, holding, sharing, burning.

In an age defined by urgency and conflict, the documentary mirrors the deceleration at the heart of the process, inviting the viewer into the same stillness that the installation itself creates.

At its core, this is a film that documents care as method: how a group builds trust, agency, and synergy long before an audience arrives. It captures the invisible architecture of collaboration — the warm-ups, the shared attention, the mutual support systems — that give the performers ground to inhabit and perform. As the foundation for Uerba's work, "Burn Time" stands as both record and manifesto: how a group comes together is inseparable from what they ultimately create.

Video Stills, © Stella Horta

Trailer "Burn Time - Documentary"

Filmed at Flutgraben and Radialsystem, between the 5th and the 26th of January 2020