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Performative Essay as a Way of Writing an Experimental Feature Film Script I focus on the journey of seeking information about a specific situation/event/personality on a documentary basis. However instead of organizing it into a classically structured form, I will create islands of emotionally and rationally relevant messages on an intuitive basis. I work with them in metaphorical literary and essayistic language. I then performatively grasp them and let them affect the recipient, that is, I use my voice, expression, objects/props, photographs, parts of the film, sounds, and movements. Thus, potential future elements of a film story. Everything directly-alive. From this unique interaction, I then derive the basis of a scripted form for an experimental feature film. In doing so, I draw on my performative essay Without Wingsl/ Sans ailes, which took place in the autumn of 2023 at the Czech Centre in Paris, and on my experience with screenwriting students with whom I am developing this method. I am currently trying to enrich it with artistic research on the screenwriting collaboration between Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra, which I am now working on as part of a creative residency in Italy. I am also drawing on my research into the work of Carlos Saura and his mode of performative documentary filmmaking, with its emphasis on the subjectivity of memory and the perception of the past as a layer of the present. The workshop focuses on the courage to abandon the pre-structured construction of narrative and to grasp seemingly objective facts in a way that stimulates the imagination of the viewer and their will to interpret/and therefore participate in the creation.