At night
- A film by: Claudia Lehmann Konrad Hempel
- Musical interpretation: Daniel Regenberg
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Production
Concept & implementation: Institut for Experimental Affairs - In collaboration with: Thomas Ballhausen
- Direction and production assistant: Henrike Wiemann
- Image design: Eike Zuleeg
- Sound design: Andreas Mohnke
- Production design: Stephanie Därr
- Costumes: Anna Lechner
- Make-up: Dorothea Eisel
- Set / props: Tobias Esche
- Lighting: Rasmus Bjerregaard
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Actors
Jenny Schily
Daniel Regenberg
Oskar Lehmann
Josefine Hempel
Carl Hegemann
Alexander Lode
Christian Rau
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Thelma Buabeng
Night makes us see our very existence differently. At night, we approach the dark side of our existence, delicately and secretly; at the same time, night frees us from all constraints, admitting imagination into our life. The starting-point for the film Nachts is Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor – possibly his most frequently played piano work, at least amongst young students. The piece lends inspiration for this narrative film in which clues of the composer’s biography and musical elements of the composition are weaved into a woman’s (played by Jenny Schily) nocturnal journey through a city. She has to go somewhere, wants to go somewhere. But where does she arrive? Torn between her longings and encounters, between genius and fear of failure, between freedom and constraints, she finally finds herself. In reality, everything is different – or exactly the same.