Once upon a Time in Germany

Apathetic landscapes, refractive light, some birds, and the window to the tallow-swollen living room of patterned wallpaper and trivia. Editing. Tough plan sequences inflate moments to hangings and shatter their tremulous spectatorship. Thundering leitmotifs—like German disinterest in permanent intoxication—without backrest or lederhosen. Black-red-gold on full mast, the cinema is dead. Long live the cinema.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY - a home movie reading cabinet of German memory culture from the 1960s to the 1980s. A visually associative cut-up film has been created from over 50 kilometers of Super 8mm found footage, which the two directors soundtrack live with self-composed tape soundscapes and sampled text fragments of German Dada, Beat, and underground literature. An analog cinema experience that breaks with cinema and at the same time formulates a declaration of love for cinema.