Palindrome

Palindrome plays in a fictive universe where time has started to go backwards - where the years count downwards, the clocks are reversed and technology is slowly decaying. Henri, a film archivist living in the reversed 1930s stumbles upon an old film roll, that depicts time flowing in the normal direction.
He invites two American curators - Iris and John - to his Parisian home cinema in an attempt to convince them to spread his movie, and thus maybe halter the moonwalk of time. The film he has found namely bears ominous signs of an upcoming new world war... 

Palindrome is a filmic experiment with surround sound, that stands on the border between cinema, theater and installation. An essential part of the plot is conveyed through the sound - Henri, Iris and John never appear on the screen, they only exist on the soundtrack so to say. The surround sound is used to give the viewers the feeling that the characters sit among them in the audience. Dialogues and sounds not only come from the front speakers, but from all four walls of the cinema hall. From the back wall one can hear the humming of an old projector, from the middle of the room the whispers of two visitors and from the front a curious voice holding a monologue about the film shown.
Utilizing the surround sound in an experimental way, Palindrome tries to create and encourage a new way to experience cinema - a new spatial cinema, where the fiction is not only limited to the screen, but now encompasses the whole cinema hall.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/281065696

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Film
by Regie, Musik, Schnitt: David Erik Ronner, Henri: Frédéric de Carlo Iris: Gloria Endres de Oliveira John: Yannik Raiss Radiosprecher: Alex D'Attoma Werbesprecher: Tom Solo Kamera: Nicolás Santana Tonaufnahme: Victor Pfannmöller

Past Performances

• 2018-09-01, Special Occasion , Ruhrtriennale