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Filmarchiv Austria invites audiences to the screening of AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things (2012). The specially made trailer of the dreamlike film by
Edgar Honetschläger is accompanied by a live computer-guitar concert by electronic sound poet and musician
Christian Fennesz. Following the live guitar set, AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things is shown at
Filmarchiv Austria, one of TBA21–Augarten’s neighbors.
AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things a cinematographic poem. The film by Austrian filmmaker Edgar Honetschläger paints a surreal, beguiled and captivating narrative in a Japanese setting. The exoticism that the film induces and that European viewers might recognize has been transformed by Honetschläger’s personal familiarity of everydayness living in both worlds, and is infused by figures, myths and stories of European and Japanese origin. AUN depicts a fundamental belief in humankind, moreover in individuals for their potential to change the world. Structured as fairytale with interpolated dream sequences, it refutes linear understanding and opens the senses towards the pleasure of story-telling and image-making.
Internationally acclaimed Austrian musician Christian Fennesz composed the soundtrack for the marvelous film AUN: The Beginning and the End of All Things. Fennesz’s practice builds on a sonic world of highly processed guitar sounds and electronic drones, a sort of signature sound he has persistently developed and honed over the past decades to create multilayered soundscapes. The musician played a part of his impressive computer-guitar soundtrack live accompanied by a specially made trailer.