The future cannot be predicted, but that is no reason not to try experimental film: reflections on 16mm, video and in 3D about the experience of time, the play with expectations and the desire to “see in a new way” develop. 'No Future' is dedicated to various facets of the future from the 1920s to the present 2020s.

Program curated by Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann and Björn Schmitt. As part of the 17th LICHTER Filmfest

Joseph Plateau, who invented the phenakistoscope, the first device capable of producing the illusion of a moving image from a sequence of still images, provided a definition of the persistence of vision in 1829. In his research into visual physiology, he described the effects of light stimuli and colors on the retina, determining their duration to equal one tenth of a second. Yet this value is not constant: it increases as the eye adapts to darkness, hence the sensation of movement which is characteristic of a film projection. Plateau thought that the eye sees at a rate of ten images per second and that, when they are superimposed, the brain links them into a single, continuous, moving image.