The Film All-Nighter

The Film All-Nighter

»OR, MAYBE IT WAS, WHAT YOU ›DO‹,
IS THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY MATTERS.«
QUOTE FROM THE SEPARATE SYSTEM

We travel through space and time, from system to system, star to star. The complex interplay of different social systems has become an impenetrable jungle. On the other hand, change of perspective and selfreflection prove to be constructive: What we get to see is not a film about an egg, but »a film about a film about an egg,« says Katharina Lüdin of her short film about short films, coincidences and mishaps. In her animated cosmic epos, Réka Bucsi takes us on a journey through a mysterious solar system where understanding is a question of finding the right perspective. Katie Davies examines the paradoxical entanglements of military service, prison work and civil life from the perspective of imprisoned soldiers, having worked out the connections in a series of workshops with veterans. While harsh reality prevails there, other worlds are created by pure imaginative force: the Wild West, a fantasy product that has significantly shaped European views of the world. Karl May partly invented it in that most confined of spaces, in prison. Martha Colburn sets off on a journey to film a documentary about a film-maker who is making a film about Karl May. Tying together strands from her mother’s biography, Betina Kuntzsch examines a different past from a different Germany, when there was still a wall, in Chinese Checkers. Between love letters, Katzenlotto, music and time to decelerate, we visit the cosmos of a reclusive priest in the Russian provinces, whose best friend is a cat called Kis. Times passes here as though we were on another planet.
_Jessica Manstetten