GENERATION OF IMAGES

GENERATION OF IMAGES / Sound / 2025 / 103min

A documentary film by Johannes Gierlinger

“We sing a lullaby, not to lull to sleep,
this giant baby of iron and concrete.
We sing a lullaby so it grows stronger, and upon it,
incessantly the revolution can walk.”

A poem as a wake-up call for revolution, or rather a regime-compliant lullaby? GENERATIONS OF IMAGES embarks on a search for traces through the profound transformation processes of Albanian history. In the archives, forgotten places, and memories of different generations, ruptures and continuities become visible, left behind by the transition from communist dictatorship to capitalist democracy. GENERATIONS OF IMAGES finds its own language to analyse regime images and image regimes. It is the language of poetry that rejects the logic and linearity of conventional historiography, allows for contradictions, and expresses itself as both thought and action. It makes it possible not only to look at images but to let them speak for themselves, to find new meanings and to create underlying narratives. In this way, generations of images form a multi-layered and polyphonic picture of history, which often tells less about the past than about an ambivalent relationship to it and shows how deeply the traces of history are inscribed in the fabric of the present.

∣ Credits ∣

A film by Johannes Gierlinger
Assistent & Researcher: Mira Klug ∣ Assistent in Albanien, Researcher: Eros Dibra Production management: Lara Bellon ∣ Sound: Mira Klug, Jan Zischka ∣
Translation: Sara Kraja ∣ English Adaption: Thomas Logoreci ∣
German Adaption: Anjeza Cikopano ∣  Music Performer: Benjman Klug & Gökan Arslan Music Composition: Johannes Gierlinger ∣ Colors: Mira Klug ∣ Sound Mixing: Florian Kindlinger ∣ Producer: Johannes Gierlinger & Lara Bellon

Supported by Bmkoes, Land Salzburg, Cine Art Styria, Stadt Wien