Filmnacht 2: Die Ruinen von Exodus

In the organizer's words:

Our "Film Night" format, launched in 2024, in which we present special film projects with a theatrical connection, enters its second round with our guests from Berlin and "The Ruins of Exodus", an exciting mix of film, reading and music!

At a traffic circle near the A-92 highway, between Almería and Granada, on the edge of the Tabernas desert in Andalusia, at the edge of the least inviting exit and in front of a rusty sign bleached by decades of sunshine, a costumed cowboy actor sits stoically on the back of his horse every day until the evening. He not only points the way to the region's oldest Western coastal village, but his daily appearance, the scowl with which he watches the passing cars from an unshaven face, points to the fact that the village is still open to visitors despite the extensive decay that is evident everywhere. The Ruins of Exodus is a book publication and a stage play consisting of film, music and reading that deals with the film set desert of Tabernas in southern Spain. The focus is on the film industry's projections onto this landscape, the search for the history of a region and the life stories of the people who helped fiction become reality with their bodies and their labor.

by and with: Michael Disqué (image), Roman Ehrlich (text), Matthias Krieg (sound/music) | Production: Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin | Production management Filmnacht: Arno Friedrich | Technical set-up: Max Reitmayer