A love letter to dead cinemas written in static and sarcasm.
Indifferent landscapes, refracting light, some lonely bird and the window to the sebum-laden living room made of patterned wallpaper and trivialities. Cut. Tenacious sequences inflate moments to cliff-hangers and shatter their tremulous spectatorship. Thundering leitmotifs – in constant intoxication by German disinterest – with no backrest or lederhosen. Black-red-gold at full mast, the cinema is dead.
Editing
Tenacious sequences that weaponize boredom into genuine tension.
Sound
Thundering leitmotifs mocking German disinterest with operatic commitment.
Practical Effects
Glorious decaying Super 8mm, no digital cleanup in sight.
Director
Wiebke Thomsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film channels the Oberhausen Manifesto's rebellious spirit—minus the manifesto's industrial hope, plus forty years of decline.
The Thomsens reportedly sourced footage from seventeen abandoned projection booths, some still containing cigarettes from 1987.
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