Cinemass Presents: Forever...Forever (70MM)and Answering the Sun

Name: Cinemass Presents: Forever...Forever (70MM)and Answering the Sun
Released: 2026-11-22
Duration: 1 h 20 min

First up? Forever...Forever is a <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">quiet observation of nature gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. At first, the lake appears familiar – a place suspended between sky and water. But as the exposures grow longer, the dimensions themselves shift: stars begin to draw delicate lines, the sun inscribes bright arcs, the moon traces soft, almost calligraphic diagonals. The water surface becomes a perfect mirror that folds sky and landscape symmetrically into one another – above and below, light and shadow, becoming and fading.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">As in ★, Johann explores the relationship between vision and cosmos, but here no archive emerges; instead, a sequence of images forms that becomes an astronomical figure in its own right. The reservoir turns into a planetary clock whose hands are made of light – a calm, precise choreography that evokes utopian architectures such as Tatlin’s Tower, without ever citing them directly.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The visual structure is accompanied by a sound composition by Jung An Tagen, built on the rhythms of day and night cycles, weather phenomena, and the movements of celestial bodies. This constellation of image and sound opens a resonance space that extends far beyond the visible. It recalls Laurie Spiegel’s Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds, an electronic interpretation of Kepler’s cosmic harmony, included on the Voyager Golden Record – and long since beyond our solar system.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Finally, the panorama freezes into diagonal bands of pure light: traces written by sun and moon over many months. A film that does not narrate, but reveals how time and sky intertwine – a harmony of the world that ultimately unfolds with unexpected force.</span><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Then screens a 60min film, Answering the Sun</span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: maison_light; font-size: 19px;">Rainer Kohlberger is a maximalist, ready to take things to the limit when it comes to visual, auditory, and ultimately also bodily experiences. What else can explain the reason why he’s chosen the sun as his dialogue partner? As children we squinted our eyes, gazed at the horizon, and let the sun come in; this gave us the most beautiful trips. The basic requirements were idleness and absolute devotion, turning off all thoughts, setting aside all other commitments. As the ideal and in fact only setting for each showing of his Answering the Sun, Kohlberger prefers the darkest possible cinema space, to be equipped with a large screen and the best possible sound system, because it is only there that his unsettling, mesmerizing conundrum can unfold to maximum effect.</span><br style="font-family: maison_light; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 19px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: maison_light; font-size: 19px;">Kohlberger’s work speaks of seduction, an overstimulation and deception of the senses, monochrome-pumping color surfaces, powerful drones. A night-black sequence in front of a wall of sound is followed by a hallucinatory passage without sound, which finally turns into shimmering Op-Art geometry. Strong light signals create afterimages on the retina, while specific acoustic stimuli stimulate the ear to generate sounds on its own, and the entire body is affected, with an implicit loss of control. And in all the dizzying flickering, throbbing, and pulsating, a sun ball appears, largely bathed in vibrant colors. Just as we children of the sun were entertained and inspired by the uniqueness of our trips, every collective viewing of this film will remain individual in the eye of each beholder. Kohlberger takes this to extremes. Retinal afterimages and sound emissions from the ear can be measured, but in the darkness of the cinema, one can only guess at what the other members of the audience have experienced during this full hour of iridescent colors, shapes, and sound worlds. Can there be a more beautiful declaration of love for cinema, whose sun rises again and again? (Regina Schlagnitweit)</span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div></div>PT1H20M2026-11-22Cinemass Presents: Forever...Forever (70MM)and Answering the Sun"Cinemass Presents: Forever...Forever (70MM)and Answering the Sun"

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