Director: Werner Nekes
Year: 1982
Country: Germany
Language: English | German
Length: 90 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: 18

Synopsis

The film is a Homeric journey through the history of cinema. Its theme is based on the mythological Odyssey of Homer, the Ulysses of James Joyce, and the synthetic figure, Telemach/Phil, from the 24-hour-long piece 'The Warp' by Neil Oram. Werner Nekes combines these three figures, and he shows their stories within the history of 'ighterature' writing with light = film. His central theme, however, is visual language in of itself: Odysseus/Bloom is transformed into Uli the Photographer, Penelope/Molly into his model, and Telemach/Stephen into Phil, who begins his 'Telemachia'. The connecting of their three lives occurs during the course of a single day, in September of 1980, in Germany's industrial Ruhrgebiet region, preceding the elections in the Federal Republic.