In our collaborative artistic practice, we combine a documentary, research-driven approach with strategies of experimental filmmaking. We are interested in representations/images of contemporary social and political phenomena and their meanings, in the formation and deconstruction of worldviews and clichés, while simultaneously engaging with traces of the past. To this end, we seek out diverse locations and protagonists, which we relate to one another in an associative manner.
Note on the Trilogy
WARNINGS TO THE DISTANT FUTURE (2025) was preceded by two documentary experimental shortfilms: [ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] (2015) and THE EFFECT OF THE CANNONRY ON THUNDERCLOUDS (2017, 30 min). While [ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] focused on industrial transformation landscapes and their subsequent uses, particularly in the Halle–Saale / Bitterfeld region, THE EFFECT OF THE CANNONRY ON THUNDERCLOUDS examined the everyday reality of weather metaphors amid shitstorms, data floods, and so-called “waves of refugees”. The spatial and landscape-based aspects of transformation explored in the first two parts are expanded in the current film by an incomprehensible temporal dimension. The collaged descriptions of states in this trilogy thus move from the recent past just beneath the surface, through the turbulent present between troposphere and trope, to the sedimentations of this present in the distant future.
Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder
