Moritz Eggert

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

"In illo αTempore" is 19th part (R. 19 bis) of interdisciplinary cycle "REQUIEM." "I imagine that almost everyone who has come across this piece is familiar with the phrase 'in illo tempore'. In illo tempore—in that time. [...] Let’s pause for a moment on 'tempore'. Let’s consider, as laypeople might, what part of the original phrase this is. Of course, it is technically 'time.' [..] When an extra letter 'a' appeared in my mind—which has a tendency to complicate all sorts of concepts to the limit—it completely changed the perspective of everything. 'aTempore' was born. What did that mean to me? If 'tempore' is, theoretically, '(at) that time,' then 'aTempore' would mean 'non-time.' Now we have 'That Non-Time.' Does this mean we should think of time that has stopped? Or perhaps of different spaces, sensations? [...]" - as the introductionary note to the movie says.

In the 3D-movie “Mad Mieter” the protagonist in this case is a lonely praying mantis, who lives in a bourgeois furnished apartment, where it comes to a cruel end after an initially delicate approach.