After the Future
2019|34 min|Documentary
THE STORY
Time, more precisely lifetime, feels strangely out of alignment, breaks out of its order and unravels – that becomes palpable again and again: at home, Ortwin Passon once says, sitting at the counter of a Berlin pub with his beer, he sometimes looks at himself in the mirror and talks to himself – about the future that’s behind him. How does this present day that you thought you’d never see feel? Ortwin is HIV-positive, buried his last boyfriend in 1995 (“nursed to death”, he calls it) and has been working on a thesis on barebacking for a while – the political and penal relevance of unprotected anal intercourse between men in Germany. For Ortwin and many of his friends the issues of freedom and self-determination, of the relationship between sex and the law, of the present and the future, of death and excess are particularly existential.
THE STORY
Time, more precisely lifetime, feels strangely out of alignment, breaks out of its order and unravels – that becomes palpable again and again: at home, Ortwin Passon once says, sitting at the counter of a Berlin pub with his beer, he sometimes looks at himself in the mirror and talks to himself – about the future that’s behind him. How does this present day that you thought you’d never see feel? Ortwin is HIV-positive, buried his last boyfriend in 1995 (“nursed to death”, he calls it) and has been working on a thesis on barebacking for a while – the political and penal relevance of unprotected anal intercourse between men in Germany. For Ortwin and many of his friends the issues of freedom and self-determination, of the relationship between sex and the law, of the present and the future, of death and excess are particularly existential.
CAST & CREW
Cast
Ortwin Passon
Mads Elung-Jensen
Rüdiger Lautmann
Chou Chou de Briquette
Uli Menze
Director
André Krummel
INFORMATION
Production company
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Genre
Documentary
Released
2019
Age rating
PG-13
LANGUAGES
Audio
English
Subtitles
English