Forever...Forever

Day breaks over the Ottenstein reservoir. In accelerated motion, light floods the landscape, colours racing over the bridge and the surrounding trees and sky—until night falls and darkness arrives. From the same fixed position, the cycle repeats for 22 months, yet the changing light renders each day singular, a unique constellation of weather and season. Jung An Tagen’s trance-inducing score follows the same impulse, translating planetary motion into pulses of rhythm and stretches of near silence. Its austere precision also underlines the film’s firmly rooted structural lineage, keeping us at a measured distance from the straightforwardly figurative. Night follows day across countless variations, hurtling toward unbroken luminosity as the time-lapse shots speed up. FOREVER…FOREVER was shot on a specially constructed camera that shoots custom 65mm stock with exposure times of up to 24 hours—by the final sequence, 423 days have been condensed into 17 seconds. Yet for all its technical complexity, the film returns us to something elemental: the Earth’s rotation, a rhythm that belongs to every living being, and one too often overlooked in our time; rediscovering it together, in the auditorium, in the dark, also carries a political dimension. (Salvador Amores)

In the presence of Johann Lurf.
With VIENNALE-TRAILER 2026.

No tickets for the opening gala at Gartenbaukino on Oct 22 at 7.30 pm!
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Johann Lurf (selection): (OHNE TITEL) (2003, K), PAN (2005, K), VERTIGO RUSH (2007, K), ZWÖLF EXPLOSIONEN (2008, K), THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG (2009, K), ENDEAVOUR (2010, K), A TO A (2011, K), RECONNAISSANCE (2012, K), SOUND SUPPRESSION (2012, K), PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID (2013, K), PYRAMID FLARE (2013, K), EMBARGO (2014, K), TWELVE TALES TOLD (2014, K), CAPITAL CUBA (2015, K), ★ (2017), CAVALCADE (2019, K), REVOLVING ROUNDS (2024, K, CO-DIRECTOR)