Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht
Short Film, AT 2002, Farbe, 60 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2023
Director, Script: Jörg Kalt
Cast: Simon Schwarz, Kathrin Resetarits, Georg Friedrich, Margarethe Tiesel, Johanna Moder, Thomas Jonigk, John F. Kutil, Nicholas Ofczarek, Michael Tanczos, Gregor Seberg
Camera: Eva Testor
Editor: Monika Willi
Location Sound: Emily Artmann
Music: Bernhard Fleischmann
Production Design: Hannah Landes
Costumes: Veronika Albert, Hannah Landes
Love is a strange (genre-)game, its end—or the prospect of it—merciless. With a refreshing rejection of every tradition of romantic cinema, Marvin Kren and Jörg Kalt confront their protagonists with the tribulations of heartache, zombie apocalypse, and time running backward. Just like the first encounter of two lovers, their cinema, too, moves toward the future through the night Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht. At the beginning and at the end of the time together—or beyond.