Abendland (2011)
Some things can be seen more clearly at night.. . A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection. Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way. The longer you consider a word, the more distant is its return gaze: ABENDLAND.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
| Directing | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Director |
| Writing | Wolfgang Widerhofer | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Writer |
| Writing | Maria Arlamovsky | Writer |
| Production | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Producer |
| Production | Markus Glaser | Producer |
| Production | Michael Kitzberger | Producer |
| Production | Wolfgang Widerhofer | Producer |
| Camera | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Wolfgang Widerhofer | Editor |
