For the revival, Jennifer Mattes has reworked her film Bars von Atlantis (2020) and chosen filmmaker Michael Gülzow and his work Die ultimative Frage auf alle Antworten (The Ultimate Question to All Answers, 2019) as her dialogue partner. Together they start a chain of elective affinities.
‘Michael and Jennifer met at a pirate party. There and at the Academy of Fine Arts, they began a long-standing friendship and collaboration that continues to this day. Although they have ended up doing very different work, they have always given each other good advice. Michael would give Jennifer a YouTube scene and Jennifer Michael sometimes a title in return. This is also what made Jennifer want to invite Michael: the exciting dialogue between their works and approaches, in some ways connected and yet also different. What the two share is their own kind of humour and the ability to laugh at themselves. And if the world needs anything right now (maybe the film world too), it might be a deeply ambivalent yet smiling look at (more or less) tragic events so that we can endure them better.’ – Jennifer Mattes
