For the digital restoration of ‘NIHIL, or All the Time in the World’, 40 years after its completion, I now had the chance to delve deep into the analogue material of the film once again. And as we worked on it again, I still don’t quite understand what we were doing and how we conjured up this work, which is so dear to me and yet so foreign, in the midst of the wild West Berlin of the 1980s. …
What has now been revived from the 16mm material is phenomenal – I have never seen the film itself so visually stunning!
I am looking forward to sharing ‘NIHIL’ with you on the big screen!
Thanks are due to the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, in particular Masha Matzke & Dr Elisa Jochum, who were passionately committed to this restoration, to the FFA, which made the digitalisation possible with its ‘film heritage’ funding programme, and especially to the team at BASIS-Berlin, who already now for 20 years have been making my films look better than I could ever have dreamed.
I am very grateful that ‘Nihil, or All the Time in the World’ will now remain visible!
