BEYOND THE NOW
2022
german premiere at
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1-channel film
colour&black and white, sound
4K anamorphic, aspect ratio 2,35:1
18 min,German with English subtitles
cast
Jules Elting
Natasja Loutchko
Ida Lennartsson
Ulrike Hemberger
Cleo Zindler
Author and Director Christin Berg
lighting Cinematographer
Jakob Stark
Music by Matija Strniša
and
Filip Caranica /
contemporary sounds
Film Editing by Christin Berg
Sound Recording
by Thomas Funk
Assistant Camera
by Nikolaus von Schlebrügge
Beyond the Now is a critical examination
of the forest as a symbol
of the romantics for foggy vision
as well as utopian ideas about the future
and dystopian realities.
Based on the Italian landscape,
which was captured by German Romantics
in paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries,
a reflection of the past is interpreted here,
but visions of escapism and
an utopian future are also revealed.
Opposite is an insight into a
current forest area after a wildfire.
This discrepancy between the
actual state of existence
and the hopes of the past
forms the basis of the work.