- dir. NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER
- year. 2011
- country. AUSTRIA
- run-time. 1h 28min
- rating. 18
£5.00 (£3.50 conc.)
Doors 19:00 - Film 19:30
A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection.
Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way.
The first part of our Unseen Forces double bill is DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE by Fritz Lang, screening on Saturday January 21st (Tickets sold separately).
“I want people to finally see these things that they know happen in the background, and which are normally blocked from your view intentionally.”