Summary
On his 24th birthday private documentarian Jan Peters grabs his Super-8 camera and captures a moment of his still young life. Three minutes in which he looks into the camera and talks about his torn state between being an aspiring filmmaker and self-doubt. Then, an abrupt cut–as the Super-8 can only record that much on one reel. This is the beginning of an autobiographical experiment, which, with its elliptical narrative, condenses life to its essentials.
29 birthday-films follow: monologues in the bathtub, wild dance numbers and an ongoing engagement with the changing technology of the film apparatus. Peters, now a film professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, tells anecdotes of his childhood, of love, of growing into his role as father and a birthday invitation to Jean-Luc Godard.
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