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 shows their stories within the history of "lighterature" 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.
