A 47-minute fever dream where physics homework becomes cinema. You won't understand it. That's the point.
In Du a woman visits a friend of her recently deceased father. They speak about the father’s scientific achievements, gravitational waves and spatial geometry. The film is an attempt, in the context of a play, to reformulate the film expression. To show in musical and abstract picture sequences different forms of order and disorder, the limit of thought and our place in the universe.
Cinematography
Abstract sequences that make gravity visible
Direction
Kylberg's theatrical experiment gone beautifully wrong
Production
Staging intimate drama against cosmic scale
Director
Peter Kylberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1986, 'Du' emerged from Sweden's rich experimental film scene that treated celluloid as philosophical instrument rather than entertainment delivery system.
The gravitational wave discussions predate their actual 2015 detection by LIGO—making the film's scientific speculation oddly prescient, or perhaps just well-researched physics cosplay.
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