Director Johann Lurf positioned a specially developed, weatherproof 65mm camera opposite an Austrian hydroelectric power plant. Using a new film technique, he captured the sun’s path in an accelerating timelapse over 22 months. Clouds shift direction at astonishing speed, lightning strikes, stars trace fine lines, and the sun draws bright arcs, while the water’s surface turns the landscape into a perfectly symmetrical mirror of the sky.
By increasing the exposure duration of each frame by frame, the perceived passing of time continually accelerates, and by the end of the film it is 10,000 times faster than at the beginning. In Forever…Forever Lurf captures a span of time that normally falls outside human perception, and almost two years pass uninterrupted in 21 minutes.
The unique sound composition by Jung An Tagen is built around the rhythms of day-and-night cycles, weather phenomena, and the movements of celestial bodies. All the elements unite in this monumental vision of the cosmos in motion, which must be seen on the big screen.
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