At night

01.10.2020

Spot On MozART project

The starting point for the film At night is the Fantasy in D minor by W. A. Mozart. Perhaps the most frequently played piano piece, at least among young music students, inspired a cinematic narrative in which the composer's biographical approaches and musical elements of the composition were associatively transformed into a woman's nocturnal journey through a big city, played by Jenny Schily.

Piano Fantasy in D minor, KV 397

A film by
Claudia Lehmann and Konrad Hempel

Musical interpretation
Daniel Regenberg

The night makes us look differently at our existence. Beautiful, but also mysterious, we approach our dark sides of our existence at night, but at the same time the night also frees us from all constraints and lets the imagination into our lives. Somewhere it has to go, somewhere it wants to go. But where does it arrive? Torn between longings and encounters, between genius and fear of failure, between freedoms and constraints, it finally encounters itself. In reality, everything is different or exactly the same.

Conception & Realization: Claudia Lehmann & Konrad Hempel / Institute for Experimental Affairs
In collaboration with Thomas Ballhausen
Musical interpretation: Daniel Regenberg
Assistant director and producer: Henrike Wiemann
Image design: Eike Zuleeg
Sound design: Andreas Mohnke
Production Design: Stephanie Därr
Costume Design: Anna Lechner
Make-up: Dorothea Eisel Construction
Stage / Set Construction: Tobias Esche
Lighting: Rasmus Bjerregaard

Acting:

Jenny Schily
Daniel Regenberg
Oskar Lehmann
Josefine Hempel
Carl Hegemann
Alexander Lode
Christian Rau
Thelma Buabeng

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