The NoFilter Kino team proposes to enter the dark territory of cinema together with guest authors in order to face the choice of whether and from which side to cross the border of the screen. On its border stand other people’s words and unlived lives.
Is it not madness to be afraid of becoming a madman?
CULTURE TALK ON THE RADIO
Errkaa (Germany; 2022, 27 min)
“Culture Talk on the Radio” is a hybrid, narrative and documentary, a road movie and also an art film and for the most part affectively a silent movie with some music. Then we only hear the conversation between the art critic Christoph Tannert and the well-known artist René Schoemakers coming from the speakers of a car radio. As for the road movie it is about a lonely truck driver who works for a company that specializes in the delivery of fruit and art. When the truck driver picks up a hitchhiker this interrupts his daily routine. For almost the whole time they listen to a radio program that just happens to be broadcast. Tannert is the presenter of the culture and arts program. The conversation is real and has not been scripted. Some of the things referred to during this conversation are taken up in the fictive part of the film. The film sequences become a silent movie once the radio has been turned on, allowing the content of the conversation about art to creep into the narrative and eventually gain equal footing with the power of the moving pictures.
FORGETTING
Pavel Stankus (2025, 9 min)
A universal story about a man living his best life on the eve of a new war.
THE NEW FLESH
Rupert Jörg (Germany; 2023, 4 min)
Chatbots advocate for the idea that it is meaningful for humans to merge entirely with a virtual world. Gradually, some of these bots begin to generate hallucinations, thereby raising questions about the fundamental rights of all humanity to exist. This portrayal of physically merging with a cyber world is depicted in a grotesquely distorted manner, where genders, locations, and times blend together. Utilizing artificial intelligences at various stages of development, images were generated and subsequently animated to convey this concept.
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THE ECLIPSE OF THE BLACK SUN
Rupert Jörg (Germany; 2022, 12 min)
Through the video collage of “The Eclipse of the Black Sun”, the aesthetics and language of contemporary neo-fascist propaganda were examined. Found footage collected from social media channels of neo-Nazi groups and conspiracy theories promoters were embedded in a staged children’s news program.
EASILY DISTRACTED
Annika Gebhard (Germany; 2023, 14 min)
Easily Distracted tells the story of a young man going on a vacation with his girlfriend on a Baltic island. Soon, however, he finds himself in irritating situations that fill him first with curiosity and later with panic. He meets various characters who confuse and unsettle him in different ways. Finally, his only anchor of reality disappears…
Reality is a fragile construct that is under enormous strain, not least because of the rise of conspiracy ideologies that represent alternative realities. If we have to assume that perception is always subjective and selective, what basis of reality can we rely on?
As the technological progress of digital, artificial intelligence further endangers the concept of reality, the question arises what distinguishes human beings in their originality and whether this should be preserved.
STUDIES AT HUNINGUE/BASEL OR THE TREE TO SLEEP
Lutz P. Kayser (Germany; 2025, 10 min)
It is the artistic documentation of aesthetic swarm intelligence. The middle part of the essay film gives the impression that the starlings did their meditative rounds only for my cameras after my direction. These six minutes essentially consist of an en bloc shot, which I adjusted to the track frame-accurately with only a few cuts. I leave the stage to the swarms of starlings, they are art! It’s about perception.