German Premiere

Romania/France 2024, 86 min, director: Andrei Ujică

“TWST” begins with the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium and takes its title from a Beatles song that anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past, neither retrievable nor forgettable. The frame of reference steadily broadens, juxtaposing adjacent realities of 1965 – the New York World’s Fair and the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television. A cast of thousands is summoned – each separate sphere, face, and place given equal weight, each instant a centre.

Within these domains, ghostly incorporeal presences circulate, their words audible – figures of vanished youth still inhabiting these locations, whose gritty photographic textures confirm their reality. A journey to the hidden core of a world both gone and palpably present.