Once upon a Time in Germany

Apathetic landscapes, refractive light, some bird 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.

Once upon a Time in Germany - Poster 1

Once upon a Time in Germany

Wiebke Thomsen, Johannes Thomsen

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Germany 2022
Language
de. OF ohne UT
Format
8 mm print, Color, 80min
Stereo

Director & Crew

Wiebke Thomsen 1

Wiebke Thomsen

Born in 1982 in Georgsmarienhütte. Studied cultural studies, film studies and philosophy in Leipzig. Works as a freelance live super 8mm cinema artist.

Filmography

2022 ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY, Live Super 8mm Film, HOF 2022

Johannes Thomsen 1

Johannes Thomsen

Born in Hanover in 1981. Studied German language and literature, political science and law in Marburg. Works as a freelance live super 8mm cinema artist.

Filmography

2022 ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY, Live Super 8mm Film, HOF 2022

Writer
Wiebke Thomsen
Johannes Thomsen
Beatrice Fago
Christian Preuss
Director of Photography
Johannes Thomsen
Editor
Wiebke Thomsen
Sound
Johannes Thomsen
Producer
Wiebke Thomsen
Johannes Thomsen