At The End Before The Beginning

At The End Before The Beginning is an experimental film on the topic of expectations – how we experience anticipation as social beings, individual person, and film audience. Consist of six ostensibly incoherent chapters, the film presents seven distinctive characters, beginning with a child sitting alone in the dark and looking straight into the camera, one couple intensely expressing intimacy through body tension and release, a soldier kneeling down in front of a painting in an art gallery, a dressed up lady waving her arms against flying pieces of glass, a man in suit floating upside down above street stairs while holding an open briefcase, an old guy playing a magic cube when toys are falling from the sky, to the final scene, where all the characters gather together and open up a new beginning at the end. Whether or not we will get lost depends on our own will to break expectations of individual roles in society and perception of reality.

Avant-garde & Experimental Special Award
Director:
Matthias Winckelmann
Year:
2012
Country:
Germany
Genre:
Experimental
Length:
7'
Screenplay:
Matthias Winckelmann
Photography:
Ivan Robles Mendoza
Editing:
Matthias Winckelmann
Sound:
Alan Pring
Music:
Alan Pring
Cast:
Tebo Gabriel, Tanja Brechmann, Ole Driever, Christian Harting, Swantje Maue, Artan B. Doyle, Wolfgang Gutschmidt