Es wird einmal geworden sein (Once upon tomorrow) is a biopic, based on the old woman Anna, living in the forest without running water or electricity, using a car battery to make light, while the rural neighborhood and infrastructure massively transformed – glazed country houses, wind turbines and SUVs shaping the landscape.

Then and now, the old woman is well known in the neighborhood, both as a romanticized subject and nostalgic medium of the “original life”.

Through the intermingling of the past and the present, witnessing and authorship, oral stories and physical relics, human and non-human, narration and first person view, the research on the old woman blends with the own, situated perception and collective aspirations. Redefining the moving image as a literally „moving“ image, the act of storytelling emerges as a performative moment, with the storyteller becoming the protagonist of the story. Fragments and facets emerge between the real and the projection.

How do we tell the stories, How are identities constructed, Who speaks, Who speaks for whom This story is based on true incidents.

Through the intermingling of the past and the present, oral stories and physical relics, reconstruction and first person narration, the investigation blends with the own, situated perception and collective aspirations.

Conceiving the moving image as a literally “moving” image, the act of storytelling emerges as a performative moment, with the storyteller becoming the protagonist of the story.

The 2-channel video projection is performed on a mobile vehicle. Fragments emerge between space and the projection.