Film poem, 16 mm, b&w, 15 minutes, Germany 2025
Live Soundtrack: Telemach Wiesinger / 16mm

Synopsis

The 16mm film poem TRANSIT is a visual journey that, driven by a tangential force and using cars, trains, ships and aeroplanes as its means of transport, takes the viewer from the internal borders of the European Union to its external borders.

Accompanying the original 16mm projection, a constantly evolving soundscape is created using prepared 4-track audio cassettes.

Participation

Thomas Bartels, Martin Bergande, Félix Csajka, Markus Dörner, Fabienne Dressler, Till Gombert, Alexander Grebtschenko, Stefan Johnen, Georgios Kokolatos, Charly Schillinger, Thomas Schmölz, Ute Schöler, Werner von Mutzenbecher

Premieres

Award

“Special Arrow Antonio Marmi”
RIBALTA Experimental Film Festival Italy 2026

Selected Festivals

Rencontres Cinématographiques des Belvédères France 2025

Review

TRANSIT has won the Antonio Marmi Special Arrow Award, established this year by the Ribalta Experimental Film Festival. The jury commended Wiesinger “for having succeeded in creating a small cinematic poem in 16 mm, a visual journey facilitated by the tangential force of various modes of transport – car, train, ship and plane – across the internal borders of the European Union, right to its furthest reaches”.

Following the triumphs of 12 ASTERISCI at Italian festivals — the SNCCI award and a special mention from the international jury at Pesaro, and the Best Film award at FLIGHT in Genoa — Telemach Wiesinger returns to the competition in our country with TRANSIT, the sister film to his highly acclaimed feature film on European borders, a work shot during that same spiral-like journey that traversed all the states of the Union, but this time largely based on moving images.

In sequences of around 20 seconds each, the impression is one of time slowed down, though not completely still. From liminal spaces and voids, Wiesinger once again draws out a timeless dimension — neither clearly vintage nor unequivocally contemporary — spiritually in tune with the suspended time of observing a perfect image.

We also see a few people going about their daily routines, performing familiar gestures.

But here is the real surprise. At the Festival, the director personally screens his short film in a completely analogue version, on 16mm film accompanied by ambient sounds mixed live using a four-track recorder. Voices from radio broadcasts, various signal interferences, what sound like human footsteps.

The very concept of film as a finished and static work is called into question. A series of philosophical and ontological questions arise regarding the essence of the director’s filmic poems…

– Clara Barcucci, Memento Cinema 2026

Distribution: Lichtbild Wiesinger