Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen), dir. Pia Frankenberg, Germany, 1992, German with English subtitles, 93 min.
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Longing for Something Completely Different (Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen), dir. Pia Frankenberg, West Germany, 1981, no dialogue, 14 min.
A jazz soundtrack, public places humming with life, and searching, restless women: Pia Frankenberg’s debut moves to the sounds and moods that will make her tick for a decade of cinema. Departing from Hamburg Central Station in enchanting darkness, a trench-wearing wanderer walks through train carriages of somnolent passengers, rummaging through unobserved luggage for secrets. Mysterious, ludic, and tantalisingly wordless, Longing… has all the indistinct dreaminess of a night suspended between waking and sleep.
Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen), dir. Pia Frankenberg, Germany, 1992, German with English subtitles, 93 min.
Pia Frankenberg’s final outing as a filmmaker is a departure for her in many ways. She leaves behind Hamburg for Berlin; the odd couple, for the romance of friends; and altogether withdraws from the screen, casting Wim Wenders regular Lisa Kreuzer as one of three women who roam about the newly reunified capital city.
Roberta, Rita, and Lilian arrive in Berlin and attend a summer wedding. Roberta prefers funerals and Rita encounters an ex. Soon, the trio forgo the riverboat celebration and its happy ending for the indeterminate land opened up with the fall of the Wall. Passing hearses, cemeteries, and monuments to the past while ambling along what was the ‘death strip’, the three women experience a city where history is under construction. At every turn, they postpone going home – one last bar, one last drink, famous last words – and rethink their own relationship to the present.
This screening is accompanied by a newly commissioned essay by Caitlin Quinlan.
A jazz soundtrack, public places humming with life, and searching, restless women: Pia Frankenberg’s debut moves to the sounds and moods that will make her tick for a decade of cinema. Departing from Hamburg Central Station in enchanting darkness, a trench-wearing wanderer walks through train carriages of somnolent passengers, rummaging through unobserved luggage for secrets. Mysterious, ludic, and tantalisingly wordless, Longing… has all the indistinct dreaminess of a night suspended between waking and sleep.
Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen), dir. Pia Frankenberg, Germany, 1992, German with English subtitles, 93 min.
Pia Frankenberg’s final outing as a filmmaker is a departure for her in many ways. She leaves behind Hamburg for Berlin; the odd couple, for the romance of friends; and altogether withdraws from the screen, casting Wim Wenders regular Lisa Kreuzer as one of three women who roam about the newly reunified capital city.
Roberta, Rita, and Lilian arrive in Berlin and attend a summer wedding. Roberta prefers funerals and Rita encounters an ex. Soon, the trio forgo the riverboat celebration and its happy ending for the indeterminate land opened up with the fall of the Wall. Passing hearses, cemeteries, and monuments to the past while ambling along what was the ‘death strip’, the three women experience a city where history is under construction. At every turn, they postpone going home – one last bar, one last drink, famous last words – and rethink their own relationship to the present.
This screening is accompanied by a newly commissioned essay by Caitlin Quinlan.
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08:30 pm
Tue, 23 Sep 2025
Cinema 1
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