Three fibs with different altitudes. Each concept of life includes fictionalization. But where does the fib start and where does it end? To protect the world view of his parents, the son has to create a new fiction no matter the cost. An artist pretends to be a Holocaust-survivor. How dense can self-creation in the arts go? The free-fall of a utopia or the infinite struggle against entropy: Hal Finney, recipient of the first bitcoin-transaction, awaits his re-discovery in a vertiginous future. (Jessica Manstetten)
Archived letters and a dialog bridge the decades from 1959 to 2023 and connect Munich, London, Usingen and Paris. The viewer experiences how the homophobia of post-war West German society shaped families and still has an impact on the life of the 92-year-old protagonist Georg Peter Bermbach.
… >>>A curator, an archivist, an art dealer, a relative: in staged situations, four people discuss their relationship to an artist who, by means of a fictionalised biography, has impersonated a Holocaust victim.
… >>>A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?
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