Synopsis:
Poetenleben seeks to reveal the humble personality of the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878 - 1956), through an immersion in the archive of his "Microscripts", minuscule writings at the limit of the indecipherable, little sheets written in pencil in microscopic handwriting, which the writer himself called the "pencil method”; a method that allowed him to write more freely and less laboriously. A process that seems to reflect his desire to discreetly distance himself from the world and society. The film then proceeds through that uncertain movement of the city, only to find an apparent tranquillity, in suspended time, within the spaces of a psychiatric clinic.
