What is film/cinema? This is the question posed by the exhibition O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) – a question already asked by André Bazin in the 1950s.

Film is an art form of and from the present and the future. It is unlike any other art. Perhaps the only art form that comes close to it in its immediacy is music. As a time-based art, film cannot stop moving. It is motion picture – bound to space and time, compelled to express processes in time and space. Thus, film is perception, intellect, reason, spirit in motion – the future of itself.

Film is always a conclusion and always asks about the next moment. The disappointment when a film ends, the sense of alienation that takes hold when one leaves the cinema (as if reality itself were like a film), arises from the absence of this next moment. For real life does not contain it in the same way. It escapes the experience that people consciously—meaning freely – make their own history.

At the center of this exhibition is the work of Jürgen Heiter, a multi-award-winning filmmaker who merges film, visual art, and literature in his work. O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) presents itself as a living archive, created in collaboration with and also featuring works by interdisciplinary artist and curator Cony Theis, complemented by an open register of Jürgen Heiter’s films by Werner Fleischer. A special edition by Jürgen Heiter will be published to accompany the exhibition.

"One goes into the archive when one needs tools to investigate reality, just as one would go into the tool shed to get a shovel. For digging, digging around, burying, unearthing. The archive/history is thus not a place of storage, but a place of production. Just as history must be understood both backward and forward—a movement that produces the present, that wafer-thin slice before/in the eye…" – Jürgen Heiter –

Special program for the Ahrenshoop Film Nights, November 12–15, 2025.

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