It has to be lived once and dreamed twice

Experiments in perception are being conducted in a wonderland of damaged images. It has to be lived once and dreamed twice commences with white noise and machine droning, gray video static and colorful distortion artifacts – in essence, with the beauty of electro-magnetic interference signals. Rainer Kohlberger conceived his work as a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, its story unfolding after the sixth great mass extinction has succeeded in wiping out the human race. A civilization of replicants bioengineered by Homo sapiens before they died out is now taking over the otherwise uninhabitable earth. A murmuring voice off-screen attests to...

Orig. Title
It has to be lived once and dreamed twice
Year
2019
Countries
Austria, Germany
Duration
28 min
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
English
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