2551.03 – The End

The end is near, but midnight cinema lives on with unbroken freshness and resistance: 2551.03 concludes Norbert Pfaffenbichler's border-crossing dystopian trilogy, in which the most glorious nightmares become terrible reality (and vice versa). Once again, the man in the monkey mask stumbles through a totalitarian subterranean future world in search of a lost child, where everyone wears masks and which is ruled by sex and violence. However, after the orgiastic excesses of the second part, the protagonist's ill-fated search ends as a nihilistic trip of dissolution, including a detour into Negativland. The entire history of grotesque cinema is once again celebrated in a taboo-breaking and psychedelic manner, from the altar of expressionist horror to the cult sites of Jodorowsky or Lynch and the eternal light of the comedy anarchists. And all of this as genuine underground. Subversion is dead, long live subversion! (C.H.)

In the presence of Norbert Pfaffenbichler and team on 17.5.2025

In cooperation with SLASH Filmfestival