Cynthia Beatt suggested to the festival to show the films in a-chronological order – and if you watch them like this, it becomes apparent why. While THE INVISIBLE FRAME moves both in former East and West Berlin, CYCLING is restricted to the West and is not a reflexion about the invisibility of the past, but about the impermeable boundaries of the present. The summer setting adds a very different, almost eerie feeling here and the potential feeling of immediate danger is still tangible. A travel back in time through the two films is a very enlightening way of dwelling on how the past might influence the present, or might be forgotten instead.

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