The Light of the World

Klaus Wybornys STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDS had its premiere at the Viennale in 2010 where it got rave reviews Afterwards it was shown at several film festivals where Wyborny documented the cinema situations with a video camera Out of that he made DAS LICHT DER WELT In a letter to Harun Farocki he wrote about the result Its a strange 86minute film partly in the form of a superimposition of seven imagelayers It has the same music played sevenfold and the same lightstructure as STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST but it takes place in seven different locations simultaneously in front of competely different audiences So one can see how the film was brought to the DAS LICHT DER WELT and how the observed viewers are in some sense illuminated by the very light that exposed my original films between 1979 and 1993 Quite a haunting prospect