Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt

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Experimental / Music
West Germany, 1987, 56 min

Directed by:

Uli M. Schüppel

Composer:

Alexander Hacke

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Dionysos 

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English Existential horror, punk dystopia, a terrorist road movie of the free fall of a man, the search for lost time, and finding a lost film through which the forgotten Nihil has become - a mere nothingness that tears apart and collapses even the characters. As if the Red Army Faction, after the explosion of the remaining values of the world, set off on a wild race towards the final battle of discovering the absolute, whose purified "Being" is as terrifying as a raw body shedding its flesh; where the hidden inner being is only its stitched underside like the face of Frankenstein, and the journey of film surrealistic symbolism ends in images not unlike those of the later Begotten (1990). In a film where purity is conditioned by blood and the moment of redemption is stretched out by illusion, the purism of expression finds nothing contradictory in the extreme stylization. ()