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The suitcases are packed: Frank, Claudia and their 17-year-old son are heading to Toronto, a professional fiasco is forcing the family to make a fresh start. But suddenly Frank's childhood sweetheart Romy appears on the doorstep. Frank swore eternal love 24 years ago. And Romy is now demanding eternal love. A demand that pushes everyone involved to their limits and reveals their darkest sides.
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
DE
Nora
"This piece, with the generic title Film, is a series of short videos built around one protocol: a snippet of news from a newspaper of the day, is rolled up and then placed on a black-inked surface. On making contact with the liquid, the roll opens and of Its own accord frees itself of the gesture that fashioned it. As it comes alive in this way, the sliver of paper reveals Its hitherto unexposed content; this unpredictable kinematics is evidence of the constant impermanence of news. As well as exploring a certain archaeology of cinema, the mechanism references the passage of time: the ink, whether it is poured or printed, is the ink of ongoing human history." –Ismaïl Bahri