//graduate film HfG Offenbach
//sci-fi essay
//feature length
//16mm color, 35mm b/w, miniDV video
//locations: Offenbach, Frankfurt, Würzburg
//currently in editing, expected completion End of 2025
//SYNOPSIS
is a science/fiction/film/essay about the relationship between humans and machines in the ‘internet complex’, its deepest abysses and smoothest surfaces.
Ursula Pfeffer talks in a video to descendants about her life as a war child. Times later there is another war child exploring an abandoned data centre.
The film is narrated by voices and images living in the data centre, which are made up of archive fragments.
Wurmloch juxtaposes the virtual digital world with its physical part. How does the www appear to us when we use it, and what does it feel like to stand in a data centre? The film technology is fundamental: Film faces digital data streams. 16mm film, 35mm still photography, and miniDV video. Like wormholes, deep cuts lead from one to the other.
16mm color
A dialogue while the camera slowly moves along the fibre optic infrastructure. Images of public life and the voice-over text relate to each other. The infrastructure of the network is criss-crossed everywhere in the urban space, but it remains invisible. Data flows. Streams of data. The river Main.
35mm b/w
Just frozen frames. A young child laughs in the halting black and white world. It has survived the apocalypse and trudges through an abandoned data center. What to do here, when the knowledge of binary code has been lost?
miniDV video
The voice of its great-grandmother resounds from a pre-binary world. She is my grandmother, Ursula Pfeffer, born at the end of the Second World War. She decided to move to Offenbach, became a nurse there, met my grandpa. It was on Ursula’s computer that I took my first binary steps in the late 90s and early 2000s.
contact: wurmloch@freieseite.net
funded by a mountain of unpaid work and Hessenfilm&Medien