Welt am Draht (Film)

World on a Wire (Film)

At the Institute for Cybernetics and Future Research, the supercomputer “Simulacron-1” creates an artificial world populated by “identity units”—simulated humans who believe themselves to be real. The disappearance of the institute’s head of security raises questions for Dr. Fred Stiller: Why is he the only one who remembers him? He makes contact with the simulation world…

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s two-part science-fiction film anticipates ›The Matrix‹ by 26 years: In an unsettling way, the levels of narrative and reality merge, raising doubts about reality and identity. Highly fascinating and deeply philosophical!

Introduction: Marc Vischer

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany, 1973, 204 Min. (two-part), FSK 12

[PLEASE NOTE: This film will be shown in its German original version without subtitles.]

Cinema: Cinema Quadrat, K1, 2, 68159 Mannheim

Admission:
€12.5 regular admission
€9.5 reduced admission
€8.5 Cinema Quadrat e.V. members

Tickets available online or at the box office.
cinema-quadrat.de/imagine-futures



Film Series: “Futures of Yesterday”

“Imagine Futures!” asks: What futures do we envision? At Cinema Quadrat, we look back at film history and show futures from yesterday: Rarely seen treasures of the science-fiction genre look ahead from the perspective of their time: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ›World on a Wire‹ anticipates ›The Matrix‹ by decades with its nightmarish exploration of reality and simulation. ›Things to Come‹ depicts the next 100 years of human history, starting in 1936. George Lucas’s debut film ›THX 1138‹ tells the story of a dystopian, deindividualized world. And the animated film ›Fantastic Planet‹ is a hallucinatory trip into the alien universe.