Absent Present (2010)

Directed by

Angelika Levi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 25m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A filmmaker searches for a man named Benji who was brought to East Germany as a child and later sent back to Namibia. As she follows traces of his story and interviews people she meets, the film becomes an essay about different kinds of travel including holiday trips, migration, and forced returns.

associativerestlessmelancholicexploratorypersonalmeditativefragmentedsearching

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.