Supertramps
ANNETTE WEISSER TO BRUCE HAINLEY Berlin, January 28, 2026
Annette Weisser’s response to Bruce Hainley’s November letter was written in winterly Berlin, where she recently had a snow-induced “out-of-body experience in reverse” that makes Marcel Proust’s madeleine episode seem faint in comparison. Revisiting this moment in a still frozen but now slowly thawing city, Weisser speculates how an increasingly unambiguous image economy and our screen-based lives may affect memory formation. Following up on Hainley’s reflections on Catherine Breillat’s films (and her male protagonists in particular), she also addresses the director’s self-proclaimed inability to fully understand men, as well as Hainley’s incomprehension of what it is like to raise a teenage son – for Weisser, as a feminist, and today, in times of masculinist posers and politics. As she notes, the experience is puzzling and imbued with contradictions – something it has in common with Breillat’s films.
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