2022 New Jersey International Film Festival

Composition & The Afterthought of Life – Online for 24 Hours!

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Welcome to the 2022 New Jersey International Film Festival! The 27th annual Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between June 3 -12. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. Each ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in person screenings. The in person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at either 5PM or 7PM on their show date. Tickets: $15=Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100. To buy tickets for individual programs click on the pre-order button.


The Afterthought of Life – Svenja Wichmann (Cologne, Germany)

This experimental documentary shows calm and precisely framed shots of Sunset Boulevard, while various voices of people living in Los Angeles can be heard talking about aspects and experiences of their lives. Their narratives are interrupted now and then by poetic reflections on absence and presence, accompanied by linear slow-motion shots along Sunset Boulevard. Other times they are contrasted by music and subjective close-ups of the sidewalk. The Film addresses various social realities, experiences and power structures and uses the example of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to explore the contrast between glamorous expectation, everyday experience and the various conditions and images that shape our reality. 2022; 54 min.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    54 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Germany
  • Director
    Svenja Wichmann
  • Screenwriter
    Lara Schoorl
  • Producer
    Svenja Wichmann
  • Filmmaker
    Svenja Wichmann
  • Cast
    Dahlia Ferlito, Vernée Watson, Max Oppenheimer, Theo Triantafyllidis, José Luis Vasquez, Polina Miliou
  • Music
    Daniel Piñeda