Mach die Musik leiser

In the year before moving out of the Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz, the Filmspotting series celebrates a goodbye and a hello and invites partners and friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek to carry out personal explorations in the film archive. Filmmaker Angela Schanelec gets the ball rolling, who presents MACH DIE MUSIK LEISER(Germany 1994) by Thomas Arslan, who, like her, also studied at the DFFB. His feature debut is a portrait of a handful of adolescents who find themselves on the threshold of adulthood without much of a clue. The end of the school period and the decisions that need to be made for the future seem to paralyze 16-year-old friends Frank, Andy and Florian. Together and mostly in silence, they hang out in public spaces, listen to music, go to concerts, watch girls and avoid too many words. Full of atmosphere and cast mainly with non-professional actors, the film captures the defiance and strangely extended temporality of this phase of adolescent upheaval. (Anke Hahn)