Warnings to the distant future

a film by Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder

…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?”