Andreas Marschall | 2024 | Switzerland | 93’ | EN subtitles

Filmhuis Cavia proudly presents Black.White.Red., the newest feature film by Andreas Marschall and winner of the BUTtest Feature Award 2024. The film was originally planned to be shot in St. Petersburg, Kiev and Marseille, but after delays due to the coronavirus, the Russo-Ukrainian war forced the film crew to change their plans significantly.

The protagonist of this film and club owner Chemkar lives for excess and criminal business. When the mysterious and seductive drug courier Eris brings him the brand-new designer drug FLASHBACK, the doors to long-buried memories of his childlike, innocent self are opened. Chemkar believes he has found redemption. But Eris's love does not lead to paradise, but straight to hell.

Director’s statement: For me, BWR [= Black.White.Red.] was an experiment that began as an art project and whose outcome was decisively changed by Russia's war on Ukraine. What was originally an art installation with numerous pop-culture references to the European genre cinema of the seventies and eighties turned more and more into the hellish journey of a male soul, who is tormented by the violence of a father who acts like a god of war. Influenced by the disintegration of our familiar world order, associations and stark contrasts took over the linear narrative, combining opera music with techno, childhood poetry with images of violence, dream with stark reality as if in a delirium. For me, the editing process was also like a journey whose outcome I didn't know. I hope that the viewer will also go on a journey and not see BWR as a classic narrative, but experience it like a dark dream.