Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft
Warnings to the distant future
Director
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
Germany / 2025
19 min.
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
German
The future of humanity’s precarious legacy is discussed in relation to issues of location in an endless online conference with 122 participants from civil society. The experts all agree: Stones are more reliable than politics.
A partly three-dimensional film about the search for the German-German nuclear waste repository, between warning signs, feedback loops, and communication problems, glowing flocks of birds and the area between sign and object. A peace steamship cruises among Moselle vineyards – past the NATO nuclear weapons base, past missed climate goals. The last generation and the one before that do not meet. “We’re in a climate catastrophe. Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting for you to listen?” A praying mantis transformed into a stereoscopic pre-cyborg gazes into a shifted past. A decommissioned nuclear reactor is turned into an all-inclusive amusement park in the Lower Rhine region. There is still no final repository for highly radioactive waste in Germany, but “how should those who come after us be warned? Isn’t there also a right to forget?”
Juliane Jaschnow is an artist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on contemporary and historical visual politics as well as collective narratives, memory processes and their identity-forming dimension. Her works have been shown in various exhibitions and at international media arts and film festivals. Jaschnow is part of the Filmic Initiative Leipzig FILZ and a co-founder of Kunstraum.mpeg.
Stefanie Schroeder works with photography and film. She links a documentary approach with strategies of conceptual art and is interested in photography’s modes of use, the concept of work, (mental) transformations of landscape, East Germany, ghost images and spam emails. She is a member of the Filmic Initiative Leipzig FILZ and a co-founder of Kunstraum.mpeg.
Directors Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder. Cinematography Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder. Editing Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder. Music Shoï Lorillard. Sound Design Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder. Sound Design Florian Marquardt. Producers Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder. Co-Producer Kathrin Lemcke. Production company Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder (Leipzig, Germany).
Juliane Jaschnow: 2014: Die Angst des Wolfs vor dem Wolf / The Wolf Fearing the Wolf. 2015: ['d℧ŋkl''dɔɪ̯ʧlant] (co-directed by Stefanie Schroeder). 2017: Die Wirkung des Geschützes auf Gewitterwolken / The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds (co-directed by Stefanie Schroeder). 2019: Rekapitulieren. 2026: Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft / Warnings to the distant future.
Stefanie Schroeder: 2014: Ein Bild abgeben / Imaging an Image. 2015: ['d℧ŋkl''dɔɪ̯ʧlant] (co-directed by Juliane Jaschnow). 2017: 40h, max. 2 Monate, Die Wirkung des Geschützes auf Gewitterwolken / The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds (co-directed by Juliane Jaschnow). 2024: LA DUNA (co-irected by Emerson Culurgioni). 2025: Cold Call. 2026: Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft / Warnings to the distant future.
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