Warnings to the distant future /
Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft
experimental documentary
in co-authorship with Stefanie Schroeder
19 min
2025
The future of humanity’s precarious legacies is debated along the lines of location issues, in an endless online conference with 122 participants from civil society. All the experts agree: rock is more reliable than politics.
A partially three-dimensional film about the search for the East-West German nuclear waste repository, somewhere between warning signs, feedback loops, and communication problems, glowing bird flocks, and the space between sign and object: A peace steamer cruises through the Mosel vineyards—past the NATO nuclear weapons base, past the missed climate targets. The last and the penultimate generations do not meet. “We are in a climate catastrophe. Do you need mashed potatoes on a painting for you to listen?” A praying mantis, transformed into a stereoscopic pre-cyborg, gazes into a displaced past. In the Lower Rhine, a decommissioned nuclear reactor is turned into an all-inclusive amusement park. There is still no repository for highly radioactive waste, yet “how are those who come after us supposed to be warned of danger? Isn’t there also a right to forget?
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