Grenzkontakte

Border contacts. When they occur is hard to predict. Crossing or merely touching the boundary only becomes apparent at the moment it happens. It is also unpredictable whether a film can and will cross boundaries - or whether it will provide us with this experience. We do not know it in advance. But afterwards. When this event strikes us like a lightning bolt. Such a cinematic border contact illuminates our lives like a thunderstorm lights up the night sky. Energy flows freely and chaotically. It courses through our bodies and penetrates deep within through the retina and eardrum. There are films that simply happen. And they always seem to come from nowhere, from the sidelines of film history. For these films, it is worth living.