Filmscreening

Screening Film-Trilogy by Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder:

• [ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] (2015, 13 min)
  In West Germany, ‘Dark Germany’ was a deri­si­ve term for reac­tion­a­ry regi­ons of the coun­try. Today its most­ly appli­ed to for­mer East Germany with its attempts to chan­ge its image: fac­to­ries and chim­neys are dis­ap­pearing, well­ness cen­ters are pop­ping up, sheep are gra­zing under solar panels. But recent past is stored clo­se to the new sur­face. On a ghost train ride through the for­mer GDR indus­tri­al regi­on around Halle/ Bitterfeld, the Dunkeldeutschland-born film­ma­kers stumb­ling sub­jec­ti­ve came­ra is try­ing to find the right distance. Starting point of the jour­ney is the for­mer ORWO film fac­to­ry, whe­re peo­p­le used to work in com­ple­te darkness.
• The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds (2017, 30 min)
  A film about storm images and the storm as an image: Stormchasers pur­sue wea­ther phe­no­me­na with the came­ra to turn them into phot­gra­phic tro­phies. In front of the green­screen of the TV stu­dio the wea­ther­men points into the void. At the Max Planck Institute, birds fly against arti­fi­ci­al wind. Lovestormpeople flood the inter­net with their ske­wed slo­gans. Escape games play upon people’s socie­tal fears. On fruit plan­ta­ti­ons hail can­nons shoot 130 db sound­waves into the sky. Which wea­ther has beco­me nor­ma­li­ty? Either way, ‘some­thing mas­si­ve is coming towards us.’
• Final Repository (2025, 17 min)
  The future of humanity’s pre­ca­rious lega­cy is dis­cus­sed along the lines of loca­ti­on issues in an end­less online con­fe­rence with 126 par­ti­ci­pan­ts from civil socie­ty. All the experts agree: “Geology is more sta­ble, relia­ble and pre­dic­ta­ble than poli­ti­cal sys­tems and socie­ties”. A peace steam­er crui­ses through the Moselle viney­ards, past the NATO nuclear wea­pons base. The last and the penul­ti­ma­te gene­ra­ti­ons do not meet. A pray­ing man­tis trans­for­med into a ste­reo­sco­pic pre-cyborg inves­ti­ga­tes in a dis­pla­ced past. On the Lower Rhine, a decom­mis­sio­ned nuclear reac­tor beco­mes an all-inclu­si­ve amu­se­ment park. There is still no final repo­si­to­ry for high­ly radio­ac­ti­ve was­te in Germany. But “the safe­ty-rele­vant infor­ma­ti­on for posteri­ty should be kept for 1 mil­li­on years on various sto­rage media”.

With Stefanie Schroeder & Juliane Jaschnow, fol­lo­wed by a mode­ra­ted discussion.