On his 24th birthday the private documentary filmmaker Jan Peters snapped his Super 8 camera and captured his still young life for a brief moment Three minutes in which he looks into the camera and reports on his split between aspiring filmmaker and selfdoubt Then abruptly cut because the film roll of the camera does not allow a longer shot It is the beginning of an autobiographical experiment that in its elliptical narrative form creates its own condensate of life 29 more birthday films follow selfmonologues in the bathtub wild dance performances and discussions about the development of the technical film apparatus Meanwhile film professor at the Kassel Art College Peters tells episodic stories of his childhood love having arrived as a father and a birthday invitation to JeanLuc Godard
