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
Wiebke Thomsen, Johannes Thomsen
Born in 1982 in Georgsmarienhütte. Studied cultural studies, film studies and philosophy in Leipzig. Works as a freelance live super 8mm cinema artist.
2022 ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY, Live Super 8mm Film, HOF 2022
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.
2022 ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY, Live Super 8mm Film, HOF 2022